HP DL365 G5 AMD Cpu RC2 install

[riegerrobin]

Hey

I have a DL365 G5 with two quad core amds and 16gb ram on which I want to install pfsense 2. I keep getting an error but when trying to install. I am trying to install in a vm in XenServer 5.6 fp1

Any ideas on how to get around this? I have read the forums and some people seem to suggest it might be the ram but I have checked it an it is new ram and all good.

Has anyone go it running in Xen on this server or just on this type of server

Thanks in advance

Cheers
Robin


[Gloom]

We are a HP shop and the things I've noticed with pfsense installs are as follows.
Using either ILO 2 or ILO3 interfaces to mount the install media always fails during install (Works fine with FreeBSD, Windows, various Linux flavors)

Using a USB CD/DVD fails if the device is plugged into the front USB ports. (Again works fine with FreeBSD, Windows, various Linux flavors)

The error appears to be the same one you have and I've never found the root cause but have seen it on all the recent HP models we have tried right up to the G7s.
I can't comment on Xen installs as we only run VM ESXi  which will mount the ISO and install it provided you copy it up to a local data store.

[eri--]

Can you try with i386 snapshot if at all possible?

[riegerrobin]

Hey

Thanks for the replies

I have tried to mount the iso from the local storage repo I made on the harddrives to avoid any cd rom drive, but this still gives same error

Also tried 32bit version and also same error

Is there possibly a setting in the loader that needs changing?

Cheers
Robin

[riegerrobin]

As a note:

I have tried the RC1 (64 and 32)
I have tried the latest development version (64 and 32)
I have also tried installing it on an external drive connected by usb and also onto a usb thumb stick
I have changed the loader to change hw.mca.enabled
I have tried different assignment of cpu and memory
I have tried different xenserver storage types (lvm and ext from memory)

Nothing has worked. Same error every time

Is there a way of compiling the xen virtualisation stuff into pfsense? Recon this would help?

Cheers
Robin

[Nuub]

Hi,

There is another thread talking about this problem. (no solution yet )
Seams related to Xen/Hyper-V and AMD Cpu

http://forum.pfsense.org/index.php/topic,36281.0.html