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freeBSD: Install hangs at /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0
Has anyone successfully installed freeBSD on a proliant 2500?
I have tried several releases of the OS with the same result. Thinks appear to work correctly until it displays /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 and then the install hangs. The sysinstall application is supposed to launch at this point. A Deja search reveals this to be a fairly common occurance but no answers are offered. Does anyone have a solution? Proliant 2500, dual PPro 200, Smart-2P, 1 gig ram Redhat installs just fine but since they are abandoning their distro to focus on enterprise products I'm searching for a replacement. |
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I'm having the same problem right now. Both 5.1 and 4.9 freeze while
booting with the same message on a Proliant 2500. I'll tell you if I find anything out... Google isn't giving me anything. (VinceV) wrote in message . com... Has anyone successfully installed freeBSD on a proliant 2500? I have tried several releases of the OS with the same result. Thinks appear to work correctly until it displays /stand/sysinstall running as init on vty0 and then the install hangs. The sysinstall application is supposed to launch at this point. A Deja search reveals this to be a fairly common occurance but no answers are offered. Does anyone have a solution? Proliant 2500, dual PPro 200, Smart-2P, 1 gig ram Redhat installs just fine but since they are abandoning their distro to focus on enterprise products I'm searching for a replacement. |
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btc wrote in message ...
I had the same problem until I realised that FreeBSD wasn't properly detecting the amount of RAM in the system. (snip) I was able to get around the problem by specifying the amount of RAM when the installer boots - (snip) I then set the amount of RAM using the "hw.physmem" variable. e.g. ok set hw.physmem="425984k" ok boot After that the install ran smoothly. (snip) Thanks! It works great! Looks like alot of people will find this very usefull, this is the first fix for this (that I've found) in newsgroups, great job! - Jason |
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microsplit wrote:
btc wrote in message ... I had the same problem until I realised that FreeBSD wasn't properly detecting the amount of RAM in the system. (snip) I was able to get around the problem by specifying the amount of RAM when the installer boots - (snip) I then set the amount of RAM using the "hw.physmem" variable. e.g. ok set hw.physmem="425984k" ok boot After that the install ran smoothly. (snip) Thanks! It works great! Looks like alot of people will find this very usefull, this is the first fix for this (that I've found) in newsgroups, great job! - Jason damn! I wont work for me! If i spesify the memory, the kernel b0rks with a fatal trap 12, or something. Maybe i dont get it. but what would be the right size(in k) for a system with 320M ? Have you done something in BIOS? -- Med vennlig hilsen / Best regards Christer Solskogen / dizzy tun3Z http://dtz.cjb.net - http://carebears.mine.nu "Cheap, but not as cheap as your girlfriend!" -Spider Jerusalem |
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Christer Solskogen .egg.spam.egg.egg.spam wrote in message ...
microsplit wrote: btc wrote in message ... I was able to get around the problem by specifying the amount of RAM when the installer boots - (snip) I then set the amount of RAM using the "hw.physmem" variable. e.g. ok set hw.physmem="425984k" ok boot After that the install ran smoothly. (snip) I wont work for me! If i spesify the memory, the kernel b0rks with a fatal trap 12, or something. Maybe i dont get it. but what would be the right size(in k) for a system with 320M ? Have you done something in BIOS? 320m = 320 * 1024 = 327680k If you specify more ram than you have it will fail. One other minor gotcha, in /boot/loader.conf you don't need the word "set", use hw.physmem="327680k" VinceV |
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On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 08:10:27 -0800, VinceV wrote:
Christer Solskogen .egg.spam.egg.egg.spam wrote in message ... microsplit wrote: btc wrote in message ... I was able to get around the problem by specifying the amount of RAM when the installer boots - (snip) I then set the amount of RAM using the "hw.physmem" variable. e.g. ok set hw.physmem="425984k" ok boot After that the install ran smoothly. (snip) I wont work for me! If i spesify the memory, the kernel b0rks with a fatal trap 12, or something. Maybe i dont get it. but what would be the right size(in k) for a system with 320M ? Have you done something in BIOS? 320m = 320 * 1024 = 327680k If you specify more ram than you have it will fail. One other minor gotcha, in /boot/loader.conf you don't need the word "set", use hw.physmem="327680k" It still gives me a Fatal Trap 12. What kind of OS have you set in BIOS? -- Med vennlig hilsen / Best regards Christer Solskogen http://dtz.cjb.net - http://carebears.mine.nu "Cheap, but not as cheap as your girlfriend!" -Spider Jerusalem |
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Christer Gundersen wrote in message news:pan.2003.12.06.09.43.29.79000@SPAMBLOCK2000. online.no...
On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 08:10:27 -0800, VinceV wrote: 320m = 320 * 1024 = 327680k If you specify more ram than you have it will fail. One other minor gotcha, in /boot/loader.conf you don't need the word "set", use hw.physmem="327680k" It still gives me a Fatal Trap 12. What kind of OS have you set in BIOS? Mine is set to linux. I have dual processors so the APIC is st to full table mapped. (CTRL-A to enter advanced mode) My setup is proliant 2500, dual PPro 200s, 1gig ram, smart 2/P with 5 9.1 gig drives in one RAID5. Bios is set to linux and the smart start partition exists. Fatal trap 12 could be the result of a memory problem too. Have you tried it with different memory modules? If you have two does it work when you remove one? VinceV |
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