Hi all, My company has recently purchased a Dell PowerEdge 600SC. I attempted to install both 5.1 RELEASE and a snapshot from 20030731 - both of which failed during booting.
The error message was the same as described in the message "CURRENT on Dell PE600SC panics on boot", from Josh Homan on 2003-04-08 19:36:33. Since the message is the same I won't duplicate it here. After a little bit of testing I managed to get the system to boot and install. The problem seems to be with the CD-ROM attached to the tertiary IDE channel (which is where Dell attach it by default). Shifting the CD-ROM onto the secondary channel allowed me to boot and install FreeBSD. Once installation was complete, I disconnected the CD-ROM altogether (I'm running 2 HDD's - one on each channel). Unfortunately my "solution" isn't a fix, it's merely a workaround - but at least it will help anyone else with the same system to install 5.x. Glen Gibb Ridley College _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
