Re: [Opinions Wanted] Dell PowerEdge 2950 Servers ...
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 09:41:19AM -0500, David Robillard wrote: My personal experience with Dell is that it's ok until you hit a problem. Then it's hell. So bad, in fact, that we don't purchase them anymore and have gone with IBM and HP systems for our FreeBSD, RedHat and Windows machines. Can you say PERC? IMHO, the problem with Dell is not their hardware, but their support (or lack of it). Ditto -- We had a (duh) PERC 3/di go south on a PE2550 and getting Dell to fix it was like pulling teeth. Once I finally leaned on them enough to get them to agree to an RMA, I had to wait until the next day for the part to be courried to my datacenter (which was a slight gaff, since they don't usually do SR), and another couple of hours for the guy to show up. If you plan on running your Business on Dell, be prepared for Incredibly bad and horrible support. Be it consumer product support or Enterprise 24/7/365 type support. Agreed.. and since FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE runs on Sun X86-64 servers (X2100, X4100, X4200), I don't see any reason to have to bother with it. However, I do have a handful of PE2950s in deployment, just upgraded them all to 6.2-RELEASE, no problems yet (unlike those crappy SuperMicro Pentium D boards). Cheers, ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to access /stand after the package installed
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 11:12:37AM -0500, Douglas Song wrote: How can I access /stand directory in FreeBSD 6.2 using postinstall script of the customerized package? I can do that in Freebsd 5.3. It moved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8:49am](2):72:/root# which sysinstall /usr/sbin/sysinstall [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8:49am](2):73:/root# whatis sysinstall sysinstall(8)- system installation and configuration tool [EMAIL PROTECTED] [8:49am](2):74:/root# uname -a FreeBSD detroit.prod.biz360.com 6.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Jan 12 08:32:24 UTC 2007 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64 ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: BBC debate Battle of the operating systems
On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 02:11:53PM +, Robin Becker wrote: Robin Becker wrote: The BBC is to host a debate on multiple OSes. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm unfortunately they already closed the applications so I guess FreeBSD will have to remain partially represented by some McFanBoy. Right, and we're a bunch of snobs anyway.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:16:22PM -0500, chris neill wrote: It is my understanding that the new Dualcore Pentiums fall under the auspices of the AMD64 port.. Anywho, whenever I try to run the bootonly installer, the boot stalls here: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16 at ata0-slave PIO4 If I run from an i386 kernel, everything is hunky-dorey. From dmesg: Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz (3391.51-MHz 686-class CPU) [snip] .. Any takers? I'll follow up with the output of boot -v from the AMD64 bootonly disc later in the day, if need be. Thanks in advance, -C ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: 6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?
I can boot the AMD64 GENERIC kernel if I disable APCI from the loader menu. This appears to be a legitimate bug, so I guess I'm going to submit my dmesg / etc to the AMD64 folks.. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
6.2-REL w/ SuperMicro Pentium D board, installer problem?
It is my understanding that the new Dualcore Pentiums fall under the auspices of the AMD64 port.. Anywho, whenever I try to run the bootonly installer, the boot stalls here: acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16 at ata0-slave PIO4 If I run from an i386 kernel, everything is hunky-dorey. From dmesg: Timecounter i8254 frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 3.40GHz (3391.51-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = GenuineIntel Id = 0xf64 Stepping = 4 Features=0xbfebfbffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,C MOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE Features2=0xe49dSSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,EST,CNTX-ID,CX16,b14,b15 AMD Features=0x2010NX,LM AMD Features2=0x1LAHF Cores per package: 2 real memory = 3756916736 (3582 MB) avail memory = 3677409280 (3507 MB) ACPI APIC Table: PTLTD APIC FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID: 0 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID: 1 ioapic0 Version 2.0 irqs 0-23 on motherboard ioapic1 Version 2.0 irqs 24-47 on motherboard ioapic2 Version 2.0 irqs 48-71 on motherboard kbd1 at kbdmux0 ath_hal: 0.9.17.2 (AR5210, AR5211, AR5212, RF5111, RF5112, RF2413, RF5413) acpi0: PTLTD RSDT on motherboard acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter ACPI-fast frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 ... acd0: CDROM Compaq CRN-8245B/1.16 at ata0-slave PIO4 da0 at twa0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: AMCC 9550SX-8LP DISK 3.04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 100.000MB/s transfers da0: 238408MB (488259584 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 30392C) da1 at twa0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: AMCC 9550SX-8LP DISK 3.04 Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 100.000MB/s transfers da1: 953632MB (1953038336 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 121571C) SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched! Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a em0: link state changed to UP I know the media works because I just used the same disc today to install 6.2-RELEASE on a Sun XFire X4200 (AMD Opteron). Any help would be greatly appreciated. -Chris ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
