[geeks] FreeBSD advice please?

[Sevan / Venture37]

Phil Stracchino wrote:
> Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
>> there where some bugs in 7-STABLE before 7.1 was released which stopped 
>> some from being able to boot off the CD.
>> You might want to try disabling the HPET from the bios if that option is 
>>   available to you.
> 
> I found a BIOS option to disable hyperthreading, and did so since I
> don't really care that much about it anyway.
> 
> This morning, the 9500 is back to spewing errors (all I can catch is
> something about tma0 and PCI and parity).

So does that mean that disabling HT allowed you to get the system booted??

What mobo are you using & are you running the latest bios??

>> Sevan / Venture37
>> P.S if you're interested in trying ZFS on FreeBSD you'll need to use the 
>> amd64 version, if your cpu's will support it.
> 
> ZFS is only supported on FreeBSD on AMD64?  If soi, I'm not going to get
> very far with dual Intel Xeons then ...

no, it just performs poorly on x86. The Xeons should be fine as long as 
they support em64t.


Sevan / Venture37