I'm replacing the motherboard my server from a tyan s2885 to a s2892 and am having some odd problems that I was hoping somebody could shed some light on.
The board has two 280 cpu's and 4 x 2gb 400 mhz memory. The memory was working in my old s2885, so I'm fairly sure they are ok. I have tried the system with 2 and then with just 1 memory stick and the problems are the same. I have a 3ware 9550 pci-x raid controller, and the system boots from a sata ssd. I installed FreeBSD 8.2-release from dvd onto the ssd. The install went fine, but when I boot from the ssd, about halfway through the boot the system panics with a page fault. its fairly quick so its difficult to see exactly what happened just before the panic, and the system claims there is no dump device, so I don't have a dump. Also, when the raid controller is installed, the boot loader hangs. It presents the boot menu (windows/freebsd), I select F2 for FreeBSD, and it prints a "-" and hangs. After a minute, it reboots by itself, and will do the same thing over again. Partition 1 has dos installed and it boots ok with the raid controller installed. Is there something magic about the bios settings that needs to be set? Any ideas how to diagnose the problem? thanks, ron. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
