On April 22, 2014 5:35:56 PM CDT, Stuart Henderson <[email protected]> wrote: >On 2014-04-22, Mike Grau <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm new to OpenBSD and hope someone here has been able to install >> OpenBSD on a Dell PE R210. It will not boot the install CD (made >from >> install54.iso). Here's the console: >> >> CD-ROM: 82 >> Loading /5.4/AMD64/CDBOOT >> probing: pc0 com0 com1 mem[624K 3061M a20=on] >> disk: >> >> _ > >Not sure what is up here, but there are loads of R210 and R210ii >running >OpenBSD with no problems, this is something I would expect to work. >Only caveat I know of is, if the bios is set for serial redirection, >et it to not redirect after boot.
On the FreeBSD side, at least, it depends on exactly how the server was ordered - there are apparently a wide variety of disk controllers to be found in otherwise-identical servers. I don't recall which ones were problematic. -Adam -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
