Date: Wed, 29 May 2002 15:14:21 -0500 From: "Schroeder, Aaron" <Aaron.Schroeder@qg.com> To: 'Andrew Gallatin' <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> Cc: "Schroeder, Aaron" <ajschroeder@BUTLER.TMSComputers.com>, "'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: DigitalServer 5305 install revisited... Message-ID: <1F095B0753FCD411857700010333058A04EEC979@waexch1.qgraph.com>
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No avail = no worky, even with setting the hw.physmem option. That was with the RAM physically installed. I physically removed 1.5Gb of RAM, and the server boots. But then I have that weird install problem. I suppose I could burn 5.0DP1 and try booting it with the SCSI/NIC combo card. My plan is to run SMP anyway, so 5.0 would be a better option. -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Gallatin [mailto:gallatin@cs.duke.edu] Sent: Wednesday, May 29, 2002 2:53 PM To: Schroeder, Aaron Cc: Schroeder, Aaron; 'freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org' Subject: RE: DigitalServer 5305 install revisited... Schroeder, Aaron writes: > Per your suggestion, I set 'hw.physmem=512M' at the boot prompt. To no > avail, so, I took 1.5GB of RAM out of the box and CPU1. It boots to the Define "no avail" Does it still see 2GB of ram? Still crap out in the same way as before? > point of initializing the SCSI card (it has one of those combo SCSI/Network > Cards), needless to say, BSD fails with a timeout style warning. I do not > have the console output from that error, I can provide it if you wish. Known problem on 4x00 or 1200 series machines with sym cards. The problem is in the way we handle multiple hoses (what DEQ calls peer buses). Fixed in 5.0, if you want to try 5.0DP1. > Anyway, I plug in a DAC960 and a DE500 NIC, create a raid, boot the server > from CD. It boots to setup. I commence installing BSD, I create my > filesystems, select my distribution set, select my media as the CD. The > files start installing, and then setup hangs (Extracting bin into / > directory, to be exact). I reset the machine, boot the CD, repeat said > install procedure, but this time I select FTP as the media. Same thing, it > gets to a certain percentage and dies. I have tried it about 6 times using > each method, CD or Network. > > It fails/hangs in a different spot every time to further complicate this > issue. Sometimes it gets to 17%, 23%, 49% was the highest it went. One thing > I do notice is that the transfer speed shoots up real high, then trails off > to nothing then craps out. > > Weird. I thought it was the internal SCSI bus of the server, that's what > prompted me to try the FTP install, then that died. Well, any suggestions > would be of great help to me. That's truly bizzare. Maybe some people with RAID expertise have some ides. Cheers, Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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