Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Bruno
Kind of a large patch, but in order to make an omlette, you need to break a few servers. This is a diff against -CURRENT, not stable-8 as I didn't get a chance to test it. It is directly based off of changes that peter@ made to the Yahoo FreeBSD 7 tree. I have compile and boot tested

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-29 Thread Sean Bruno
Kind of a large patch, but in order to make an omlette, you need to break a few servers. This is a diff against -CURRENT, not stable-8 as I didn't get a chance to test it. It is directly based off of changes that peter@ made to the Yahoo FreeBSD 7 tree. I have compile and boot tested

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading (logical processors bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading (logical processors bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-23 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 17:51 -0700, Chuck Swiger wrote: Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading (logical processors bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I

Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm chomping at the bit pretty hard to put this hardware to use,

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Sean Bruno
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 14:38 -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Picked up a couple of these powerhouse machines to be VirtualBox hosts. 24 core, 96G of RAM. Trying to put (amd64) both 8.0-RELEASE and 8.1-RC2 on it with no luck whatsoever so far. Any help provided would be greatly appreciated, I'm

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: [...] I suppose I could boot via console and log it all... come to think of it, I'll go give that a try to get more comprehensive output Okay, here we go, output below my sig. panic: Built bad topology -- oh, dear. That's a new one for me.

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Mahlon E. Smith
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success today. A couple of things: 1. Reduce your RAM to 64G (seriously) 2. Don't use the H200 Dell RAID

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Pyun YongHyeon
On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 05:36:11PM -0700, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: On Thu, Jul 22, 2010, Sean Bruno wrote: Funny you should mention this box. I've been arm wrestling with this beastie for a couple of weeks and finally had some amount of success today. A couple of things: 1.

Re: Unable to install 8.x on a PowerEdge R810

2010-07-22 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi, Mahlon-- On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:36 PM, Mahlon E. Smith wrote: Install worked great, though it appears I need to keep hyperthreading (logical processors bios option) disabled for it to boot reliably. Similar errors as before if I enable it. I believe FreeBSD ships with MAXCPU set to 32 by