On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit :
I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been frustrating.
I've got two FreeBSD 6.2 instances installed on two M600 blades, and am
moving to a new datacenter with M600 blades and trying to install FreeBSD
7.2 or 8. But as others on this list and elsewhere have mentioned,
seemingly without resolution, is that it doesn't work.
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-July/029147.html
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=486
I was able to install 6.4 on it today, but I'm still at a loss as to why
7.x and even 8.x will not. Did the architecture change in such a way that
it could no longer support M600 blades? Did someone leave something out of
the standard ISO kernel? Am I not doing it right?
Happy to pass along my dmesg.boot;
from the two URLs you provide, it seems that i386 is working (for all FreeBSD
versions) and only amd64 is failing : can you confirm this ?
then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding and a
failing kernels (verbose !)
I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of
which fail to boot on the Dell M600.
I was able to boot the bootonly 6.4 ISO, install via the net, and a friend
suggested I try binary updating. I have been able to binary update to
7.0-RELEASE thus far. I'm trying to get to 8.0-RC3 via binary update now,
and will report back.
I believe the issue is not with FreeBSD but the bootonly ISO. It could
also be a problem with the other ISOs, I'm not yet sure.
PS : is there any more recent version of the Dell BIOS ?
According to the iDRAC, the firmware 2.2.3 reported as installed is what
Dell reports as the latest version (August 2009).
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