On Oct 1, 2008, at 5:01 PM, chriswareham%chriswareham.demon.co.uk@localhost wrote:
pettai%nordu.net@localhost wrote:On Oct 1, 2008, at 3:24 PM, chriswareham%chriswareham.demon.co.uk@localhost wrote:I'll be interested to know if this solves your problem as I've got a DL385 that's about to be decommissioned (it runs Linux at the moment, but I'd like to repurpose it as a development machine with NetBSD on it). I came across the ACPI issue when I installed NetBSD on the older DL360 series - the install kernel would boot, but I couldn't access the disks, which sounds exactly like the problem you've been having. With ACPI support disabled, everything workspettai%nordu.net@localhost wrote:Hi, We've tried installing NetBSD 4.0 on 2 HP Compaq DL385 with single and dual CPU configuration and the Smart Array 6/i controller. The obvious problem that occur is that the I/O towards the controller/disk is worthless. Even the installer writes -stalled- while installing/copying the NetBSD base to the disk. We've tried both NetBSD 4.0 i386 and amd64, and we've even tried NetBSD current amd64 (during the summer), but it's the same symptom on all versions. Has anybody else seen this problem before? are there any fixes or workarounds available? Regards, FredrikHi Fredrik, The power management on many of the Compaq DL series is terrible - to get NetBSD to boot you'll need to disable kernel support for ACPI. The installer in -current allows you to select a non-ACPI kernel from a menu, but for NetBSD 4.0I can't remember the magic incantation that boots with ACPI disabled.Oh...we haven't tried that one yet (though now that you mention it, it's something that has been suggested to solve other problems then running NetBSD on specific H/W.) Thanks for the pointer. I'll try that as soon as I get time over.fine, including APM.
Hmm... I have bad news, it didn't solve the problem.I grabbed the iso for amd64 HEAD 200809300002Z and tested the boot option [2] NetBSD (no ACPI) . The installation of comp.tgz + xcomp.tgz still gets the - stalled - message then the reach about 79% on the progress bar during the installation process. I also tried to run tar xzvpf manually on for instance pkgsrc.tgz, and it takes pretty long time before it's finished.
About the DL360, I run NetBSD 4.0 (i386) on one of those (but one of the latest versions) and that works pretty well. We have just decommissioned a DL380, so I will try out NetBSD on that one to see if NetBSD runs smoother.
(So we'll find out if it's only those DL 385 that have I/O problems). Re, /P