Re: Instaling on a Compaq Proliant with SmartArray 221

2003-02-08 Thread Volker Kindermann 
 I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well.

I don't know if this helps you, but the Compaq SmartArray Adapters have
a service partition which must be the boot-partition.

Only installed linux on these machines so far. I know that you have to
configure the boot-partition for your OS but don't remember if freebsd
was an option.

 -volker


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Re: Instaling on a Compaq Proliant with SmartArray 221

2003-02-08 Thread Daxbert 
  I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well.

 I don't know if this helps you, but the Compaq SmartArray Adapters have
 a service partition which must be the boot-partition.

 Only installed linux on these machines so far. I know that you have to
 configure the boot-partition for your OS but don't remember if freebsd
 was an option.

Actually you don't.  The Compaq diagnostic partition doesn't have to be installed.  
I've installed W2K, Linux, and FreeBSD 4.x w/o
the diagnostic partition.  It can make your life easier, because you then don't need 
the Smart Start CD to make BIOS changes, but
that's about it.

My problem is with FreeBSD 5.0.  Obviously something has changed, which is keeping 
5.0's install CD, from booting on certain Compaq
hardware.

--daxbert


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Re: Instaling on a Compaq Proliant with SmartArray 221

2003-02-08 Thread Ray Seals 
I just installed 5.0 on a Compaq 360 with no problems.  It booted from
the CD just fine.  It has a SmartArray controller in it also.  I should
be able to test it on a DL 380 soon.

I did have problems with an old Compaq Proliant Dual Pentium Pro box
with SmartArray controller.  I had to boot from a floppy.

Ray

On Sat, 2003-02-08 at 14:32, Daxbert wrote:
   I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well.
 
  I don't know if this helps you, but the Compaq SmartArray Adapters have
  a service partition which must be the boot-partition.
 
  Only installed linux on these machines so far. I know that you have to
  configure the boot-partition for your OS but don't remember if freebsd
  was an option.
 
 Actually you don't.  The Compaq diagnostic partition doesn't have to be installed.  
I've installed W2K, Linux, and FreeBSD 4.x w/o
 the diagnostic partition.  It can make your life easier, because you then don't need 
the Smart Start CD to make BIOS changes, but
 that's about it.
 
 My problem is with FreeBSD 5.0.  Obviously something has changed, which is keeping 
5.0's install CD, from booting on certain Compaq
 hardware.
 
 --daxbert
 
 
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Re: Instaling on a Compaq Proliant with SmartArray 221

2003-02-07 Thread Daxbert 
 I am a FreeBSD Newbie trying to install 5.0, but I will Install any 
 Version that will work, on a Compaq Proliant, Dual 550 MHz with 512 MB 
 RAM, Smart Array 221 RAID Controller with a RAID 5 Array (4 * 18.2GB) 
 drives.   The installation hangs after discovering the SCSI Tape Drive. 
   With the following message:
 
 Mounting root from ufs:/dev/md0
 /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0
 panic: general protection fault
 
 syncing disks, buffers remaining... panic: bdwrite: buffer is not busy
 Uptime: 20s
 
 What tricks can I use to get this installed?
 
 Any help is appreciated. 
 
 Scott

I'm having problems with Compaq Hardware as well.

I'm mainly interested in how to generate the necessary 
debug/core information, so that others more skilled than 
myself may find the cause of this problem.  I'm not 
sure how to proceed given the boot media is read-only.

Compaq 1850R
Dual PIII 600Mhz *
512MB RAM
Adaptec 2940

*same problem happens with single cpu


I've placed the console output at the end of this email.  
I've clipped some of the boot data, the full output can 
be found here: http://ra.dweebsoft.com/console.html

Once the host fails, it locks hard.  Num-lock fails 
to toggle, and Ctrl-Alt-Del won't reboot the host.  
Also, even if no keys are struck, the host fails to 
reboot itself after the reported 15 seconds.

---
During the boot 
(prior to my specification of set console=comconsole) 
the following error is reported on the vga console

acpi: bad RSDP checksum (224)


FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Jan 16 22:16:53 GMT 2003
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Preloaded elf kernel /boot/kernel/kernel at 0xc0a6.
Preloaded mfs_root /boot/mfsroot at 0xc0a600a8.
Timecounter i8254  frequency 1193182 Hz
Timecounter TSC  frequency 598185546 Hz
CPU: Pentium III/Pentium III Xeon/Celeron (598.19-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = GenuineIntel  Id = 0x673  Stepping = 3
  
Features=0x383f9ffFPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,MMX,FXSR,SSE
real memory  = 536854528 (511 MB)
avail memory = 510607360 (486 MB)
Initializing GEOMetry subsystem
Pentium Pro MTRR support enabled
md0: Preloaded image /boot/mfsroot 4423680 bytes at 0xc062679c
npx0: math processor on motherboard
npx0: INT 16 interface
pcib0: Intel 82443BX host to PCI bridge (AGP disabled) at pcibus 0 on motherboard
pci0: PCI bus on pcib0
...
ahc0: Adaptec 2940 Ultra SCSI adapter port 0x2400-0x24ff mem 0xc6ffe000-0xc6ffefff 
irq 5 at device 13.0 on pci0
aic7880: Ultra Wide Channel A, SCSI Id=7, 16/253 SCBs
...
eisa0: EISA bus on motherboard
mainboard0: CPQ0679 (System Board) on eisa0 slot 0
...
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
acd0: CDROM TOSHIBA CD-ROM XM-6102B at ata0-master PIO3
Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle


Fatal trap 18: integer divide fault while in kernel mode
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc0454102
stack pointer = 0x10:0xd6a0dce8
frame pointer = 0x10:0xd6a0dce8
code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x1b
   = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
current process  = 11 (idle)
trap number  = 18
panic: integer divide fault

syncing disks, buffers remaining... 
done
Uptime: 2s
Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
  host unresponsive at this point


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