FreeBSD 7.0 does not work on HP DL180, irq 10 storm

[Ivan Voras]

Palle Girgensohn wrote:
> A customer is trying to get a brand new HP DL 180 to work with FreeBSD. 
> We tried 7.0-RELEASE-amd64 and the March 7-STABLE-amd64 snapshot, none 
> of them works.
> 
> I don't have the entire picture, since I haven't tried installing 
> myself, the machine is 700 km away, but it is an experienced sysadmin 
> doing the installation. After install, which seemingly works, although 
> the console is complaining about IRQ 10 problems (can't say exactly what 
> it complains about), reboot to the fresh install does not work, the 
> machine apparently scrolls away a great number of complaints about IRQ 10.

Can he send you a photo of the screen with his phone camera or something 
like that so you see the details? Especially interesting might be the 
beginning of the display / message, but that would also be very hard to 
capture, especially while booting. A serial console might help there.

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