FreeBSD 12 (or 13) on Dell R730/R630 servers?

Peter Eriksson

Peter Eriksson

Curious if someone has managed to get FreeBSD 12 (12.2) running on Dell R730xd servers (or R630/R730 - same motherboard)?

I have 11.3-11.4 running just fine, but 12.2 just locks up during boot (even causes the "serial-over-ipmi" to disconnect).

(X2APIC has to be disabled to get 11 running, but other than that it works fine)
 
Just to get back to myself - the same 12.2 kernel boots just fine on another similar machine (also a bleeding edge kernel built from git/main).

Now on to why the other machine doesn't like it. Sigh.

(Both are Dell R730xd with 512GB RAM, dual Intel Xeon E5-2620 2.1GHz CPUs, with HBA330 SAS controllers and Intel X710 10G ethernet network cards. One difference is that the one that locks up is using a quad-port X710 card, the one that boots have dual two-port X710 cards.)
 
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