--On 02 November 2005 15:19 -0800, Jeffrey Williams wrote:
I have recently purchased a number HP DX5150 SFF desktops with idea
of using them as basic infrastructure servers (e.g. DNS, DHCP, and
firewall). I prefer to use -stable versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD.
A few general thoughts (no knowledge of the hardware, but worth a go):
- for OpenBSD, try -current snapshots (may fix bge). Ok it's not named
"stable" but if it works and -stable doesn't, there's no loss...
- for FreeBSD, try 6.0RC1. ditto.
- if these options fail, is using a PCI nic an option? cards supported
by sk(4) can be found reasonably cheaply and work well. From what I
read, vge(4) aren't bad either.
- does the machine have apm anyway?
obsd
also incorrectly detects drive geometry but gets closer to the actual
numbers fbsd, I did not try to manually correct, I am not as
familiar/comfortable with openbsd's disklabel, the drive did "seem"
more stable.
$ sudo disklabel -E sd0
# Inside MBR partition 3: type A6 start 63 size 1562353317
Treating sectors 63-1562353380 as the OpenBSD portion of the disk.
You can use the 'b' command to change this.
Initial label editor (enter '?' for help at any prompt)
?
Available commands:
[...]
g [b|d|u] - use [b]ios, [d]isk or [u]ser geometry.
APIC settings did not seem to affect obsd boot or installs
$ grep apic /usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC*
/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/conf/GENERIC.MP:ioapic* at mainbus?
i.e. it's only used on the MP kernel.
