From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 1 22:48:19 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8AD8A16A4CE for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:48:19 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx.sat.corp.rackspace.com (mx.sat.corp.rackspace.com [64.39.1.217]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1815943D2D for ; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:48:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from amason@rackspace.com) Received: from mail.rackspace.com (mail.rackspace.com [64.39.2.181]) j21MmI9q015593; Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:48:18 -0600 Received: from [10.6.100.226] (office100-226.sat4.rackspace.com [10.6.100.226]) (authenticated bits=0) by mail.rackspace.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j21MmAoO029832 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:48:11 -0600 Message-ID: <4224F19C.2090207@rackspace.com> Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:50:04 -0600 From: Art Mason User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041230) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Kipp Holger References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Rackspace-RTS-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: WVtbaj07: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-From: amason@rackspace.com cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 22:48:19 -0000 Indeed, just installed on a customer's server last night, and I build SMP support into the GENERIC kernel this morning. Only issues I encountered has to do w/ recognizing the full 4GB of RAM, but this apparently has some compatibility issues w/ the amr driver. As per Holger's comments about disabling USB in BIOS, this is a good suggestion, since the DRAC apparently causes some IRQ issues w/ the PS/2 keyboard controller, or something along those lines. Regardless, these 2850 boxes are stupid fast, and I'm looking forward to benchmarking 5.3 on them. -- Art Mason Technical Support - Team F Rackspace Managed Hosting (800) 961-4454 ext. 4290 amason@rackspace.com Kipp Holger wrote: > On Tue 01.03.2005 17:49, lhmwzy wrote: > > Please reply to hk at alogis dot com. This is not my native > account. > > >>Subject: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ? > > > Yes > > >>Anybody did this? > > > Yes. > > >>Any help is appreciateed? > > > Boot from FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE-CD and install. No problems > so far. You might want to disable USB within BIOS, though, > because they seem to be shared with other critical devices > (nics and raidcontroller). But I don't use USB anyway. > Then you might want to upgrade to 5-STABLE. > > This is on Dell PowerEdge 2800 with 2GB ECC RAM, > 4 x 36GB SCSI and amrd-Controller (PERC-4-something). > > Binary copy of SAP 4.6C and Oracle 8 (from a working > installation on FreeBSD 4.x) works nearly without changes > (using emulators/linux_base-suse-9.1 and one additional > rpm (some compatibility-thing)). > > Regards, > Holger Kipp > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >