SuperMicro D525 - Installing Error cannot boot

spartan7

Trying to install pfsense on 1U SuperMicro d525 and I'm getting

"Stopped at 0xc56c: ***error reading from address c56c"

I thought it was a bad cd so I tried another with same results.

I also see

Fatal trap 9: general protection fault while in kernel mode
cpuid=0; apic id = 00

any help would be appreciated

spartan7

Anyone have issues installing pfsense to a SuperMicro D525?

I read on the pf forum that many have pfsense installed on this same hardware.

stephenw10

Bad ram?
http://forums.freenas.org/showthread.php?1152-Freenas-8-0-Release-Fatal-trap-9-Issue

Could be completely unrelated. ::)

Steve

cmb

I have one, lots and lots of others do too.

@stephenw10:

Bad ram?

That'd be my guess.

spartan7

sorry for the late response. I had to step away from this project for a while. I changed the ram and still no go. I have added the imagebin image of my screen. hopefully someone can help me come up with a workaround.

http://imagebin.org/240144

wallabybob

What version of pfSense? (Old operating systems don't always work on "new" hardware.)

What is displayed when you type "bt" then tap the Enter key? (bt should display a stack trace.)

Have you run a memory diagnostic program such as Memtest86+ on that hardware and memory? It is possible (but unlikely) you tried two bad memory sticks. It is possible (but unlikely) there is a manufacturing defect on your motherboard leading to problems on certain memory accesses.
If Memtest86+ completes a least a couple of passes reporting zero errors you can be highly confident the combination is good.

spartan7

Im running Pfsense 2.0.1. Should I be running maybe the i386 version?

Ran the mem test a few times and all clean.

Stumped

Been reading and others have disbaled HT and ACPI and some havent. Whats is the normal failsafe settings, to disable or to enable?

Its all good

Did 2 installations today with X7SPE-HF-D525. Went as planned. Any chance you are using a USB CD/DVD drive? Be sure to select USB installation at the menu.

cmb

I've only used i386 on those. It's possible that's some kind of hardware-specific driver issue that only exhibits itself on 64 bit. I'd try i386. I don't think those support > 4 GB RAM anyway IIRC so it doesn't matter which you use.

@Its:

Any chance you are using a USB CD/DVD drive? Be sure to select USB installation at the menu.

That would result in a mountroot failure rather than a kernel panic so I don't think that's the cause.

spartan7

Just Installed pfsense 2.0.2 without a hitch. I think next time I will go with an i7 setup.

Thank you guys for the help.