Notes about PCIe NVME SSD booting on less recent AMD64 hardware

2018-02-19 Thread Tinker
This is mostly extra notes to my recent separate threads about how to UEFI-boot OpenBSD in various ways. The following OS-unrelated factors added ambiguity when trying to figure how to UEFI-boot. I started with a particular machine from 2013. Whatever I tried, it would just not boot off a PCIe

Intel/amd64 hardware donation.

2016-10-18 Thread noah pugsley
Today I found some hardware I forgot to rma a few months ago. I'd be happy to donate it to the project if anyone can use it. Nothing special. 2 x Intel Xeon X5570 Quad-Core Nehalem EP Processor 2.93GHz 6.4GT/s 8MB LGA 1366 CPU, OEM. New in package. 4 x Super Talent DDR3-1333 8GB/512Mx8 ECC/REG

Re: NXE bit on amd64 hardware and i386 kernel

2006-09-05 Thread mickey
On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 07:39:21PM +0200, Piotrek Kapczuk wrote: Hello When I boot 64 bit kernel on amd64 hardware I got NXE bit recognized. When I boot 32 bit kernel on amd64 it doesn't appear. I wonder if it's normal. If it's simply not supported/not done yet are there any plans

Re: AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-16 Thread RV Tec
Any chance of success using a LSI MegaRAID 320-1 PCI-X board instead of the SAS onboard? Is there a way to connect that board directly to the backplane, in order to keep the hotswap bays? Thanks a lot! On Sun, 15 Jan 2006, David Gwynne wrote: From: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-14 Thread Bill Marquette
On 1/12/06, RV Tec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Also, on a related issue: any thoughts on SUN FIRE X4200? I recently got my hands on one, there's some issues with it (like the SAS drives aren't showing up, oops). If the usb on it works, I'll post a dmesg from this hardware next week. From

Re: AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-14 Thread David Gwynne
From: Bill Marquette [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1/12/06, RV Tec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SNIP Also, on a related issue: any thoughts on SUN FIRE X4200? I recently got my hands on one, there's some issues with it (like the SAS drives aren't showing up, oops). If the usb on it works, I'll post a

AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-12 Thread RV Tec
These days I'm using a MSI Master-F board with 2 Opteron 248. It works like a charm... Master-F has been replaced by Master-3, and this new board doesn't work when I boot MP (it locks up, or it just fuck things up, like the onboard Broadcom 5704C). I'm looking for a reliable board, and I've

Re: AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-12 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 1/12/06, RV Tec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tyan. The S2880, mentioned by Peereboom has been replaced by S2882. Does anyone know if this is still supported? The S2882 and S2882-D work like a charm for me. Both in UP and MP modes. Dmesg for the S2882-D is below (also sent to dmesg@). Where it

Re: AMD64 Hardware.

2006-01-12 Thread Chris Cappuccio
RV Tec [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about the Supermicro boards? Are they any good? the supermicro/serverworks board that i use works very well -- Don Rumsfeld has been chewing on my ankles. -- Dick Cheney