Mathieu, good afternoon! I also have here the ibm x3550 m3 and it worked perfectly, the problem is in the server install dell R420. I have two NIC off one board and one on the bord all have 6 network interfaces in my case are not intel broadcom 5719 but if I'm not mistaken. The controller is even Perc 710 mini, with two 300 GB hard drives sas in raid 1 hardware I think the days trying some solution to install pfsense but I am already about to give up my last resort, and the list :-)) I can not even start the shell in order to run these command the server crashes such meneira that neither ctrl + alt + del work. Thank you for your help! Luiz > Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:38:02 +0100 > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [pfSense] Problems with installing pfSense Kernel 8.1 on R420 > Poweregde > > G'day Luiz > > As I have a IBM x3550 m4 with a Xeon E5-2609 here, the R420 looks > quite similar to my box here, maybe you get similar results. > > With 2.0.1 the x3550 M4 panicked at early boot stage during SMP > initialization, but 2.1 booted fine. > > Try to boot a pfSense 2.1 amd64 snapshot from > snapshots.pfsense.org to see how far you can get. > > If you have bought a R420 with Intel NICs, it is likely to have I350's, > I'm sure they'll be recognized (the X3550 m4 has 4x I350). But you'll > have to tune some parameters as mentioned here - especially with a high > core count.* (this seems to be known overall with FreeBSD) > > For storage, I guess you'll have a PERC in this box? > If so (and this is why I answer ... ;-) ) l'm actually interested in > your possible feedback: > > Only recently pfSense recently added patches that backport the 'mfi' > module and 'mfiutil' > backport from FreeBSD 8-STABLE. The drivers still have some known caveats, but > expand the range of supported MegaRAID-based RAID controllers significantly. > (a plain FreeBSD 8.3 or 9.0 will not recognize most modern MegaRAID SAS) > > If your box boots up, I'd be interested in some of the following > output from the shell: > > pciconfig -lvb | grep mfi > mfiutil show adapters > mfiutil show volumes > > Best regards > Mathieu > > P.S. If you want your drives to be seen by pfSense, you need to create > them before boot in the MegaRAID/PERC BIOS or using mfiutil. > > * http://doc.pfsense.org/index.php/Tuning_and_Troubleshooting_Network_Cards > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
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