Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

[Michael Reifenberger]

On Thu, 19 Mar 2009, Olivier Nicole wrote:
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> R6.4 amd64: works
> R7.0 amd64: does not work
> R7.1 i386: works
> R7.1 i386+PAE: does not work (I had to remove fdc and some other
>               devices before it could complete the boot)
>

We have a couple of 2950 running FreeBSD-amd64 stable/7 and head.

They got installed using the 7.1 and the -current snapshot ISO's.

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FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE #2 r189142: Sat Feb 28 11:13:44 CET 2009
     root at bsd1.plaut.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/bsd1
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU           E5320  @ 1.86GHz (1863.92-MHz K8-class CPU)
   Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x6fb  Stepping = 11

Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE>
   Features2=0x4e3bd<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,VMX,EST,TM2,SSSE3,CX16,xTPR,PDCM,DCA>
   AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM>
   AMD Features2=0x1<LAHF>
   Cores per package: 4
usable memory = 8576356352 (8179 MB)
avail memory  = 8274886656 (7891 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <DELL   PE_SC3  >
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 8 CPUs
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Bye/2
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