Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)
Then you have a hardare revision difference on the controller or motherboard. I think the raid cards are in slots on that server, try exchanging them. If the problem follows the card you can probably pick up a replacement card from Ebay. Otherwise, install Windows on the server and sell it on Ebay as a running server, you will probably get back almost what you put into it. You could probably buy a dozen of these servers off the used market and a couple of them are going to have this problem. We noticed similar issues with the first generation DL360, the difference was although FreeBSD booted on all of them, Solaris only ran on a few of them. I never bothered to dig down and find out what the bad motherboard revisions were since I needed both Solaris and FreeBSD servers and I just swapped server hardware around. Like FreeBSD, Solaris is also not a supported OS on that hardware so we were in the same boat, supportwise. This is why you buy servers brand new, if you get these problems you can return the server. When you get them used, your playing craps. Ted - Original Message - From: Josh Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ted Mittelstaedt [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 9:04 AM Subject: Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can install on them. I tried using the working computer's disks (they are all Compaq brand) in the non-working machine and they wouldn't boot. Just now I took the non-working computer's disks, put them into the working machine and installed to them. I rebooted (in the working machine) and it worked, then moved the disks back to the non-working machine and booted that, and no luck. Same _ screen, no booting. :( Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFFPOgeV/+PyAj2L+IRAgFXAJ92tOch5p8Hqf7M8yzxPfbwf+GTOwCWJ0bW xlr0OdXj0oLQSeYUH94NnA== =KLZS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can install on them. I tried using the working computer's disks (they are all Compaq brand) in the non-working machine and they wouldn't boot. Just now I took the non-working computer's disks, put them into the working machine and installed to them. I rebooted (in the working machine) and it worked, then moved the disks back to the non-working machine and booted that, and no luck. Same _ screen, no booting. :( Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD4DBQFFPOgeV/+PyAj2L+IRAgFXAJ92tOch5p8Hqf7M8yzxPfbwf+GTOwCWJ0bW xlr0OdXj0oLQSeYUH94NnA== =KLZS -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)
It happens, most common is using non-compaq disk drives in these systems. Pull the disk set in the running system and put it in the non-running system and see if it boots, if it does, try putting the disks that came out of the non-running system into the running system and seeing if you can install on them. Ted - Original Message - From: Josh Endries [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 12:47 PM Subject: Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version) -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I recently got two of these old machines used. One installed and runs fine, but the other... I've been working on it for three days now and I can't get it to boot. I can install just fine from the CD (using 6.1-R), but upon reboot it goes past the RAID init and gets to a blank screen with only _ in the top-left corner, beeps twice, and sits there. The good machine does beeps also, but continues booting. This one sits there for a few minutes and then gives me a non-system disk error; it doesn't seem to find anything to boot from. I've tried resetting the dip switch for configuration and doing the system erase and using the SmartStart CD to initialize it before installing. It wants to know which OS when I do this and I've tried Linux, Windows 2000 Server and Other, and none of them work... I haven't gone through all the (dozens of) options. The RAID array seems to work, no disk problems writing during install and nothing reported in the SmartStart utility. I've read threads about ACPI problems with 6.0 but I don't think I'm even getting that far. :( I tried taking the two disks from the working machine and putting them into the non-working one and it didn't work, I still get the _ screen and it doesn't move on from there. I'm installing simply by using A for auto-slices and A for auto-filesystems and installing the standard MBR. Has anyone seen this or successfully installed on a DL360 (g1 I think, P21 BIOS)? If so, is there a certain setting, OS or otherwise, that I might need to do? Thanks, Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOSfdV/+PyAj2L+IRApfRAKCG/sv2EHVF6/CqJ5m/qWp/N0S7hwCeLeqb J8PyjnftvHo1dNXDwF1tBuc= =BHT/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Problems booting on a Compaq DL360 (P21 version)
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I recently got two of these old machines used. One installed and runs fine, but the other... I've been working on it for three days now and I can't get it to boot. I can install just fine from the CD (using 6.1-R), but upon reboot it goes past the RAID init and gets to a blank screen with only _ in the top-left corner, beeps twice, and sits there. The good machine does beeps also, but continues booting. This one sits there for a few minutes and then gives me a non-system disk error; it doesn't seem to find anything to boot from. I've tried resetting the dip switch for configuration and doing the system erase and using the SmartStart CD to initialize it before installing. It wants to know which OS when I do this and I've tried Linux, Windows 2000 Server and Other, and none of them work... I haven't gone through all the (dozens of) options. The RAID array seems to work, no disk problems writing during install and nothing reported in the SmartStart utility. I've read threads about ACPI problems with 6.0 but I don't think I'm even getting that far. :( I tried taking the two disks from the working machine and putting them into the non-working one and it didn't work, I still get the _ screen and it doesn't move on from there. I'm installing simply by using A for auto-slices and A for auto-filesystems and installing the standard MBR. Has anyone seen this or successfully installed on a DL360 (g1 I think, P21 BIOS)? If so, is there a certain setting, OS or otherwise, that I might need to do? Thanks, Josh -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFFOSfdV/+PyAj2L+IRApfRAKCG/sv2EHVF6/CqJ5m/qWp/N0S7hwCeLeqb J8PyjnftvHo1dNXDwF1tBuc= =BHT/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
