On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote:
Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit :
[SNIP]
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.
aha !
anyway, even with a CDROM, you can boot *verbose* and note where the boot
stops (even if there won't be a serial console, write down the blocking
device probe)
Can you shoot me a link to the docs on how to do this? I haven't been
able to find out how.
speaking from memory : just before the kernel starts, you should have the
*loader* menu (with the ASCII graphics depicting beastie), where you can
choose between boot options, and option 5 is boot verbose (like 4 is boot
single)
Not sure I have any more. Since I'm not in front of the console, and
since the iDRAC only allows a "video" capture of the console, I made a
video.
http://drop.io/rk0eoap
The Verbose option was selected, but it hung at the same place it did. I
was using the 8.0-RC3 bootonly iso.
It hung just after isab0, isa0 and atrtc0 loaded. The last line:
atrtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock (resolution 1000000us)
The machine is just fine, I installed NetBSD 5.0.1 on it, and I have
FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE running on another blade adjacent to it.
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