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Date:      Fri, 14 Nov 2008 10:45:11 +0100 (CET)
From:      kama <kama@pvp.se>
To:        Rainer Duffner <rainer@ultra-secure.de>
Cc:        b-boy <thys.kitshoff@rocketseed.com>, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: DL 120 G5 Freebsd 5.4
Message-ID:  <20081114104227.F54668@ns1.as.pvp.se>
In-Reply-To: <491D46F3.6050503@ultra-secure.de>
References:  <20497183.post@talk.nabble.com> <491D46F3.6050503@ultra-secure.de>

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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Rainer Duffner wrote:

> b-boy schrieb:
> > Hi all
> >
> > Has anyone attempted to run 5.4 on a dl120 g5 ? My client wants to order
> > this box but I'm not sure if 5.4 has the drivers to run on it.
> >
> > Regards
> >
> >
>
> Is there a business reason why he wants to run 5.4, of all things?
>
> 5.4 is EOL - I'm not sure it has support for the ICH that this board uses.
>

Im not sure, but I think you dont have support for the NIC. The DL380G5
uses bce instead of bge. I think you need to go up to 6.3 to get bce in
the system.

Try running FreeBSD 7.1 w COMPAT5 installed if its a binary that needs
FreeBSD 5.4.

/Bjorn



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