Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 16:50:04 -0600 From: Art Mason <amason@rackspace.com> To: Kipp Holger <h.kipp@eurowings.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can FreeBSD be installed on DellPowerEdge2800 ? Message-ID: <4224F19C.2090207@rackspace.com> In-Reply-To: <BA84A761ED41C54893BED691A4A574CF977226@EXCH5.eurowings.com> References: <BA84A761ED41C54893BED691A4A574CF977226@EXCH5.eurowings.com>
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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" >
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