Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I
couldn't think of any other way to copy it.  I put the install cd in for
FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately
instead of going to command prompt.  in the Kernel Configuration menu, I
just skip and boot the default kernel.  It finds devices that scroll
accross the screen, network cards:

NMI ISA a0, EISA ff
RAM parity error, likely hardware failure

Fatal Trap 19: non-maskable interrupt while in kernel mode
instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc02f56a6
stack pointer   = 0x10:0xc084bf20
frame pointer   = 0x10:0xc084bf34
code segment= base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x16
= DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
processor eflags= interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
current process = 0 (swapper)
interrupt mask  = net tty bio cam
trap number = 19
panic: non-maskable interrupt trap
Uptime: 0s

This is a Compaq DL380 server (dual P3 733s and ECC RAM).  I've swapped
out each memory module with a known good memory module one by one, and
every configuration still generates this error.  OpenBSD and Redhat seem
to run just fine on this machine too.  What can I do?  I don't
understand what is generating this error exactly so I don't know where
to start.

The install cd for FreeBSD 4.9 generated the same error.  The install cd
for 5.1 hangs without error messages.  if it is important for me to give
you more information about that I will go test it again and write down
the screen contents.  What i really want is 4.10 though.

Aaron


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Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Olaf Hoyer
On Tue, 15 Jun 2004, Aaron Peterson wrote:

 hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I
 couldn't think of any other way to copy it.  I put the install cd in for
 FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately
 instead of going to command prompt.  in the Kernel Configuration menu, I
 just skip and boot the default kernel.  It finds devices that scroll
 accross the screen, network cards:

 This is a Compaq DL380 server (dual P3 733s and ECC RAM).  I've swapped
 out each memory module with a known good memory module one by one, and
 every configuration still generates this error.  OpenBSD and Redhat seem
 to run just fine on this machine too.  What can I do?  I don't
 understand what is generating this error exactly so I don't know where
 to start.

Hi!

Well, ok, I assume that you got a Dl 380 Generation 1, with the white
case, and also 4U form factor, that has an ida RAID controller as
PCI-card.

I had one of those running with FreeBSD 4.7, later updated to 4.8-stable
with cvsup.
Ok, I had only one CPU in, and I had the OS type in SETUP set to NT4. Do
not set to
linux or SCO, that could impose problems.


HTH
Olaf
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Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
 Hi!
 
 Well, ok, I assume that you got a Dl 380 Generation 1, with the white
 case, and also 4U form factor, that has an ida RAID controller as
 PCI-card.

That is correct.

 I had one of those running with FreeBSD 4.7, later updated to 4.8-stable
 with cvsup.
 Ok, I had only one CPU in, and I had the OS type in SETUP set to NT4. Do
 not set to
 linux or SCO, that could impose problems.

I checked the OS setting in Setup.  It was set to NT, however changing
it to anything besides NT only seemed to change one of the PCI boards
from using IRQ 5 to use IRQ 10 instead.  I don't think that would make
the difference anyway, but what do I know. Any other ideas?

Aaron


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Re: Can't boot install cd (Compaq DL380)

2004-06-15 Thread Aaron Peterson
On Tue, 2004-06-15 at 10:01, Aaron Peterson wrote:
 hah, had to transcribe this whole thing with pen and paper since I
 couldn't think of any other way to copy it.  I put the install cd in for
 FreeBSD 4.10, turn on the server, hit [Enter] to boot immediately
 instead of going to command prompt.  in the Kernel Configuration menu, I
 just skip and boot the default kernel.  It finds devices that scroll
 accross the screen, network cards:
 
 NMI ISA a0, EISA ff
 RAM parity error, likely hardware failure
 
 Fatal Trap 19: non-maskable interrupt while in kernel mode
 instruction pointer   = 0x8:0xc02f56a6
 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc084bf20
 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc084bf34
 code segment  = base 0x0, limit 0xf, type 0x16
   = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
 processor eflags  = interrupt enabled, IOPL = 0
 current process   = 0 (swapper)
 interrupt mask= net tty bio cam
 trap number   = 19
 panic: non-maskable interrupt trap
 Uptime: 0s
 
 This is a Compaq DL380 server (dual P3 733s and ECC RAM).  I've swapped
 out each memory module with a known good memory module one by one, and
 every configuration still generates this error.  OpenBSD and Redhat seem
 to run just fine on this machine too.  What can I do?  I don't
 understand what is generating this error exactly so I don't know where
 to start.
 
 The install cd for FreeBSD 4.9 generated the same error.  The install cd
 for 5.1 hangs without error messages.  if it is important for me to give
 you more information about that I will go test it again and write down
 the screen contents.  What i really want is 4.10 though.
 
 Aaron

Turns out, it didn't like that I had put a NIC in the bottom PCI slot on
the riser card.  I moved it up a slot, and presto worko.  How might I
have known the problem was related to the PCI NIC from the kernel output
above?
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