Gateway ALR 9200

From: Brian Duke (brian_at_box201.com)
Date: 06/26/05

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Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 12:33:14 -0600

    I picked up one of these and would like to run FreeBSD this beast.

     

    The BTX loader fails right after the initial setup screen. I press any
    option except install prompt and it fails.

     

    I have :

    Gateway ALR 9200

    4 processor xeon 500's

    1 gig ram

    1 adaptec 3200S scsi card running modified raid 5

    6 drives. 2 sets of striped 3 and mirrored.

     

    I am having a difficult time finding anything that will load in this box.

    I prefer FreeBSD if possible. I've googled for a couple days and didn't find
    much help.

    Can someone help me get past this first hurdle?

     

    The OS I am loading is currently FreeBSD 5.3

    I went to adaptec and found some information about FreeBSD 4.11 and tried
    that version as well.

    I can get Solaris 10 to load but it fails to find the raid as a valid drive.

    Fedora Core 2 also boots and says it can't find a drive.

    The Raid boots up fine and builds with no faults.

    I have an adaptec driver for FeeBSD but I need to install enough OS to
    pkg_add the file.

     

    When I install a little 850 meg IDE drive and set that to master, Still the
    btx loader dies. Here is what the final screen says:

     

    /boot/kernel/acpi.ko text=0x3fbfc data=0x1c04+0x112c
    syms=[0x4+0x72f0+0x4+0x97c7]

    /

    int=0000000d err=00000000 efl=00030002 eip=00005755

    eax=00000001 ebx=00000008 ecx=000039ff edx=00000082

    esi=0000579c edi=0000e873 edi=000003ba esp=0000037e

    cs=f000 ds=0040 es=f000 fs=9dc0 gs=f000 ss=9c46

    cs:eip=2e 0f 01 14 0f 20 c0 0c-01 0f 22 c0 eb 00 8e db

           8e c3 8e e3 8e eb 0f 20-c0 24 fc 0f 22 c0 ea 78

    ss:esp=11 64 08 00 01 00 00 00-00 f0 c0 9d 02 02 51 e8

           05 00 c2 ee 05 00 00 f0-00 00 1a 7d c4 5e dd e6

    BTX Halted

     

    I think I copied all that correctly.

     

    Has anyone got a quick idea why this fails right off?

     

    Brian Duke

    303-952-4983

    Blue Incorporated.

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