Install/Boot-problems on SUPERMICRO P8SCT

Discussion:

Bastian Schern

2005-09-14 13:39:00 UTC

Hi,

I try to install pfSense on a 19" 1HE-System with LCD-Display. Inside
the case is a SUPERMICRO P8SCT Mainboard
(http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCT.cfm) with
a Intel Celeron 345J (3.06GHz) CPU, 512MB DDR2-RAM, 2× S-ATA 40GB.

If I try to boot from the Live-CD through a USB-CD-Drive I get this message:
--- snip ---
Boot from CD...
CD Loader 1.2

[...]

BTX Loader 1.0 BTX Version 1.01

[...]
[some adresses/numbers]

BTX halted
--- snap ---

What can I do to install pfSense on that system?

Regards
Bastian

Scott Ullrich

2005-09-14 15:31:07 UTC

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Please try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

Post by Bastian Schern
Hi,
I try to install pfSense on a 19" 1HE-System with LCD-Display. Inside
the case is a SUPERMICRO P8SCT Mainboard
(http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/P4/E7221/P8SCT.cfm) with
a Intel Celeron 345J (3.06GHz) CPU, 512MB DDR2-RAM, 2× S-ATA 40GB.
--- snip ---
Boot from CD...
CD Loader 1.2
[...]
BTX Loader 1.0 BTX Version 1.01
[...]
[some adresses/numbers]
BTX halted
--- snap ---
What can I do to install pfSense on that system?
Regards
Bastian
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Bastian Schern

2005-09-14 17:28:48 UTC

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With my USB DVD-Drive it is not possible to run pfSense. If I connect to
the IDE-Port it works.

But it seems that the LAN-Chipset (Broadcom BCM5721) is not supported. :-(

Is this so or I'm to stupid to configure the LAN interfaces?

Regards
Bastian

Post by Scott Ullrich
Please try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

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Scott Ullrich

2005-09-14 17:35:22 UTC

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If its in http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=37 then it's supported.

Scott

Post by Bastian Schern
With my USB DVD-Drive it is not possible to run pfSense. If I connect to
the IDE-Port it works.
But it seems that the LAN-Chipset (Broadcom BCM5721) is not supported. :-(
Is this so or I'm to stupid to configure the LAN interfaces?
Regards
Bastian

Post by Scott Ullrich
Please try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

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Bastian Schern

2005-09-14 17:38:59 UTC

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It's not in the list. :-(

Post by Scott Ullrich
If its in http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=37 then it's supported.
Scott

Post by Scott Ullrich
Please try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

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Scott Ullrich

2005-09-14 17:43:02 UTC

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Then its not supported. Sorry!

Scott

Post by Bastian Schern
It's not in the list. :-(

Post by Scott Ullrich
If its in http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=37 then it's supported.
Scott

Post by Scott Ullrich
Please try http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootTroubleShooting

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Chris Buechler

2005-09-14 18:36:01 UTC

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Post by Scott Ullrich
If its in http://www.pfsense.com/index.php?id=37 then it's supported.

It's not listed by the bge man page, and hence not that page, but that
card is supported in 5.4+, including 6.0. I also see dmesg output (from
google) on 6.0 with that chipset. Should be detected just fine. Is it
detecting *any* NIC's? What about BIOS settings, is plug and play disabled?

-cmb

Vivek Khera

2005-09-14 20:11:14 UTC

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Post by Bastian Schern
But it seems that the LAN-Chipset (Broadcom BCM5721) is not
supported. :-(

the freebsd sources for at least 5.4 onward identify it as a known
chipset in the if_bge.c file. Are you /sure/ it is that chipset?

It shows up as identified on my Dell PE800 server running FreeBSD 5.4:

bge0: <Broadcom BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x4001> mem
0xdfaf0000-0xdfafffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5

The entries in if_bge.c were create based on debugging info I sent to
the developers around december. The chipset is identified as the
5721 based on the tech specs posted by dell, so there is a chance
that the identification is not really for the 5721. i haven't poked
inside the box to verify the chip ID numbers.

I also haven't booted pfsense on this box so I can't verify that aspect.

Vivek Khera, Ph.D.
+1-301-869-4449 x806