I will also try that bios tweak.
Guy
Olaf Hoyer wrote:
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Guy Silliman wrote:
I am trying to get a Compaq 1850R running. It is a dual PII 400MHz
machine that works fine with Win2k server... but
I would prefer to use fbsd 5.x but I am stumped by this panic at
sysinstall.
Hi!
Well, the old Compaqs have some quite rough edges, and 5.1R (or do you use a -current snapshot?) is also in some things not that nice... Sometimes you have to set it to NT4-OS Type.
I have searched all the lists and have tried several fixes mentioned including the "Full table - Mapped" and OS set to Win2k in the BIOS. I have tried disabling the onboard NIC as a possible source of conflicts but no luck.
I had in my former company a 1850 running SMP with a 4.8-stable. The onboard SCSI is basically a Symbios one, and it was recognized without hassle.
(Ok, it needs the compaq tool partition to do RAID stuff, but... well, broke it during installation)
I would be willing to go with a late 4.x but it does not probe the onboard SCSI thus I have no drives. I do have a Smart Array 3200 ordered and coming - this may solve the 4.x issue, but I am puzzled by the panic with 5.x.
That ist strange indeed, my box (dual PIII-500) went fine. But perhaps there is also a different Mainboard in, with some undocumented change in the series.
HTH Olaf
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