Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) with FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE

[Mike Hunter]

On Dec 10, "NAKATA Maho" wrote:

Nakata-san,

> Yesterday, I installed 5.3-RELEASE to my Opteron dual box.
> 
> o Opteron 242 (1.6MHz) x2
> o Memory ECC PC2700 Reg. trancend 2G modules  x4
>            + CenturyMicro 512M x 4
>   (total 10G)
> o Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885)
> 
> I encountered a prolbem, while installtion. As many one pointed out
> in this ML, if we have >4G of memory, ATA hangs up.
> so I type
> o set hw.physmem="3G"
> at boot time.
> however, I recompiled and re-installed SMP kernel,
> FreeBSD never boots even if I type set hw.physmem="3G".
> 
> So I took different way. There's no problem with 5.2.1-RELEASE
> and 5.3-BETA4. So CVSup'ing from 5.3-BETA4 to -STABLE
> seems to be fine, only set hw.physmem="3G" is mandatory at
> installation, and can omit after recompiling world and kernel.
> 
> Does anybody here have problems with it?

I have a similar story.  5.2.1 loaded fine, 5.3-RELEASE would cause
instant reboots.  I was able to cvsup to RELENG_5 and run that kernel.  At
the time I blamed bad 5.3 CD Media, but perhaps there was something
actually wrong.  I have a Tyan K8S with 8G of ram.

Mike