5.3 AMD64 on Tyan S2882 Thunder K86

[alan barrow]

We run these with 2 GB and adaptec 2120s controllers. We do cut the BIOS 
down by turning off all USB and have no issues.

yours a.r.b.

Alan Jay wrote:

>I am trying to install FreeBSD 5.3 AMD64 on twin Operton with 8Gb RAM using
>Tyan S2882 Thunder K86 motherboard and LSI MegaRAID SCSI controller.
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>Almost every time I try to install at some point in the process I get some
>kind of panic usually:
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>Panic: ufs_dirbad: bad dir
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>But also had
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>Panic ufs_dstrib
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>Panic vm_fault:fault on no fault entry
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>Looking around there seemed to be some discussion about the use of  use of
>various BIOS settings away from the defaults such as the MTTR (change from
>Continuous to Discrete) and altering the memory config to AUTO.
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>And finally I wonder if for a server the ACPI settings for power saving need
>to be altered or switched off.
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>Or does 5.3 just not like all this memory :-(
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>I did once manage to complete the install but then had other problems and had
>to start again so there doesn't seem to be any consistency.  It seems to fall
>over at various points in the process from early on to way into the ports
>install.
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>Trying to work out if is a memory problem / BIOS issue or something to do with
>the configuration of the LSI MegaRAID controller.
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>Any ideas tips or thoughts would be very gratefully received.
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