Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE (Should Be PROLIANT!)

2005-07-06 Thread RA Cohen
Ted,

Thanks for getting us pointed in the right direction. Turns out
the Compaq BIOS that this bunch of hardware wanted was plain ol'
SCO UNIX. Go figure...just about all the other Compaq-based FBSD
boxes I've built have been done with SCO Unixware 7.1 or
thereabouts...go figure!

Roy

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RE: Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE

2005-07-05 Thread Ted Mittelstaedt

Hi Roy,

  Proliant and Presario are two very different families!

  You might have to pull and replace that controller with a
3200, such as this:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=56091&item=5785129
537&rd=1

  The ida code has been around a while.  But before doing that
try setting the BIOS up to define the operating system as Windows NT
as I think the SCO Unix definition programs the raid card in some
weird way to where FreeBSD can't access the boot blocks or some
such.

  Also another thing that might help - run completely through the
Compaq Smartstart CD and install a diagnostics partition.  Do not
have FreeBSD delete this, and setup with the Multiboot manager (
the second one down in the choices)

Ted

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>Subject: Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE
>
>
>Hello all,
>
>I'm darned if I know what is going on with this -- I've
>installed many version 4.X and 5.X systems on Proliant hardware
>but this is the first failure (and the first Proliant 6000) --
>
>Presario 6000 dual processor
>Smart Raid 3100ES attached to 4 - 18 Gb 10,000 RPM UW SCSI
>drives. Configured as one RAID 0 array containing one physical =
>one logical drive and one RAID 5 array containing three physical
>=  one logical drive. Compaq utilities report no problem with
>any of this, and the system is up to date with firmware. System
>set up for a SCO Unix 7.1 install.
>
>As I don't really know how to export the boot messages, I can
>tell you it fails at a line that appears maybe a dozen lines
>after the md0: Preload image line:
>
>GEOM: Configure idad0s3 start 16384 length 37584896 end 37601279
>
>So apparently FBSD is having some problems either with the
>controller or possibly the drives themselves...?
>
>I've googled and searched the web to no avail. Older versions of
>FBSD did not have the ida code, but 5.4 surely does...your help,
>as always, is most appreciated.
>
>Thank you,
>Roy
>
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Compaq Presario 6000 Install Failure FBSD 5.4 RELEASE

2005-07-05 Thread RA Cohen
Hello all,

I'm darned if I know what is going on with this -- I've
installed many version 4.X and 5.X systems on Proliant hardware
but this is the first failure (and the first Proliant 6000) --

Presario 6000 dual processor
Smart Raid 3100ES attached to 4 - 18 Gb 10,000 RPM UW SCSI
drives. Configured as one RAID 0 array containing one physical =
one logical drive and one RAID 5 array containing three physical
=  one logical drive. Compaq utilities report no problem with
any of this, and the system is up to date with firmware. System
set up for a SCO Unix 7.1 install.

As I don't really know how to export the boot messages, I can
tell you it fails at a line that appears maybe a dozen lines
after the md0: Preload image line:

GEOM: Configure idad0s3 start 16384 length 37584896 end 37601279

So apparently FBSD is having some problems either with the
controller or possibly the drives themselves...?

I've googled and searched the web to no avail. Older versions of
FBSD did not have the ida code, but 5.4 surely does...your help,
as always, is most appreciated.

Thank you,
Roy

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