Hello,
Recently we bought an IBM x3650 M3 server (PN: 7945K2G). Installing FreeBSD 8.2-release (AMD64) 'fails', because it does not recognize the SAS raidcontroller, which is the IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS aka the LSI SAS2008 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC).
Searching the Internet and reading this post, http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21949, it seems that I have to download a recent copy of FreeBSD 8-stable at http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots.
The first tries to install FreeBSD 8-stable were with snapshots of end April. But the LSI SAS2008 was not recognized.
Now (after a little vacation), I gave it another try. I downloaded the snapshot of may 6th, burned the ISO on a cd and tried to install it. The installation fails while booting. After initialising ukbd0, the bootprocess 'hangs' and waiting for a minute (or so), it comes up with some spinlock error (which disappears too quickly to read) and the server reboots spontaneously.
Does anyone have the same problems with a IBM x3650 M3 and maybe has a solution for installing FreeBSD 8-stable?
Recently we bought an IBM x3650 M3 server (PN: 7945K2G). Installing FreeBSD 8.2-release (AMD64) 'fails', because it does not recognize the SAS raidcontroller, which is the IBM ServeRAID M1015 SAS aka the LSI SAS2008 6 Gbps RAID on Chip (ROC).
Searching the Internet and reading this post, http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=21949, it seems that I have to download a recent copy of FreeBSD 8-stable at http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots.
The first tries to install FreeBSD 8-stable were with snapshots of end April. But the LSI SAS2008 was not recognized.
Now (after a little vacation), I gave it another try. I downloaded the snapshot of may 6th, burned the ISO on a cd and tried to install it. The installation fails while booting. After initialising ukbd0, the bootprocess 'hangs' and waiting for a minute (or so), it comes up with some spinlock error (which disappears too quickly to read) and the server reboots spontaneously.
Does anyone have the same problems with a IBM x3650 M3 and maybe has a solution for installing FreeBSD 8-stable?