Re: dell 8400 install prob
David Kelly wrote: On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on my SATA drives on Dell PowerEdge 400SC, but FreeBSD 5.2.1 didn't have any issues with them. Brought them up fresh out of their antistatic bags with the 5.2.1 installer CDROM. Don't believe I'm having any issues with the *drives* but vinum doesn't always remember their striped volume configuration between boots. Not sure how similar the 400SC is to your 8400. The 400SC does not have ATA RAID on the motherboard. I have a BIOS option that converts the SATA operation from either ACPI/RAID through ATA/RAID or COMBINED, things seem better when I use COMBINED (which I think means PATA/SATA). Anyone know what these things really mean? Changing from ATA/RAID to combined doesn't seem to hurt XP, and allows KNOPPIX to see the hard disk whilst freeBSD 4.10 seems to see the hard disk now. Do I dare attempt an install? -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dell 8400 install prob
I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. I don't see any conflicts in the config stage, but during the setup the install just hangs after plip. The machine has an sata drive and by default the bios is to configure hyper threading on. I've tried changing various settings and in order to reinstall XP I had to change the bios drive setting to do raid/ata autodetect. Certainly turning off HT doesn't seem to get the freebsd install any further. I managed to get various knoppix/freesbie versions to come up, but not easily and only the knoppix 3.2 seems to see the hard drive properly. -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell 8400 install prob
JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. ... I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off pnp support and ms/windows support in your pc bios. Your pc is newer than what FreeBSD has added support for. Try installing to a standard ATA HD. Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell 8400 install prob
JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. ... I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off pnp support and ms/windows support in your pc bios. Your pc is newer than what FreeBSD has added support for. Try installing to a standard ATA HD. Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes Yah. We had a site with a SATA and could not install. Even though it seemed to see the drive, it could not write to it. So, that site took out the controller and put in a SCSI and all is well now. So, long live SCSI. jerry -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell 8400 install prob
Jerry McAllister wrote: JJB wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install freebsd 4.9 on my new dell 8400. ... I believe 4.9 can not use a sata drive as target to install on. 4.9 is the old stable release 4.10 is the new stable release. Turn off pnp support and ms/windows support in your pc bios. Your pc is newer than what FreeBSD has added support for. Try installing to a standard ATA HD. Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes Yah. We had a site with a SATA and could not install. Even though it seemed to see the drive, it could not write to it. So, that site took out the controller and put in a SCSI and all is well now. So, long live SCSI. jerry seems that Linux support for the SMART chip sets isn't quite there yet either. I've certainly been able to get knoppix to see my hard disk XP partitions although not perhaps well enough to write them. -- Robin Becker -- Robin Becker ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: dell 8400 install prob
On Aug 15, 2004, at 10:03 AM, Robin Becker wrote: Sigh! I tried with 4.10 as well and that also fails. Sadly I don't have a spare IDE / drive lying about. I guess I'll have to wait on freebsd or install one of the more advanced Linux OSes I didn't *install* on my SATA drives on Dell PowerEdge 400SC, but FreeBSD 5.2.1 didn't have any issues with them. Brought them up fresh out of their antistatic bags with the 5.2.1 installer CDROM. Don't believe I'm having any issues with the *drives* but vinum doesn't always remember their striped volume configuration between boots. Not sure how similar the 400SC is to your 8400. The 400SC does not have ATA RAID on the motherboard. -- David Kelly N4HHE, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Top posters will not be shown the honor of a reply. ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
