Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Hi, As a follow-up... I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI disabled and Safe mode it stops at: md0: Preloaded insge boot/mfroot... Trying to mount root from ufs /dev/md0 After it hangs, I waited about half hour and had to power down the machine. Dell PowerEdge 1950 and 200 are not affected. Any help? I managed to install Release 6.4 amd64. I cvsup'ed to RELENG 7.1 amd64. I trimed down the kernel to keep only the devices needed by the hardware. It appreas that device sio is among the ones that hang the load of GENERIC kernel. make kernel would produce a bunch of lines like: kldxref: unknown metdata record 0 in file if_zyd.ko.symbols kldxref: unknown metdata record 0 in file if_zyd.ko.symbols kldxref: unknown metdata record 0 in file if_zyd.ko.symbols but 7.1 would boot nevertheless. After installing world on 7.1, the make kernel runs cleanly. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if you have one) firmwares are all up to date. OK. Barring that, have you tried another installation CD? No, but that very installation CD worked well on other machines (Dell 1950 and Dell 200). And both Dell 2950 are failing the same way. I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried another media - DVD instead of CD for example? -- regards, Maciej Suszko. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Hi, I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried another media - DVD instead of CD for example? Hummm, I doubt that CD drives would fail on both machines, and I tried also an external USB attached CD drive :) That's something to do with the architecture of the machine, for sure. When I installed R71.1 i386+PAE, I had to disable fdc from the kernel (and few other devices) before it would boot. But I obviously cannot disable fdc from the boot CD :) Thanks, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Olivier Nicole wrote: I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if you have one) firmwares are all up to date. Barring that, have you tried another installation CD? ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if you have one) firmwares are all up to date. OK. Barring that, have you tried another installation CD? No, but that very installation CD worked well on other machines (Dell 1950 and Dell 200). And both Dell 2950 are failing the same way. Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950
Hi, I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI disabled and Safe mode it stops at: md0: Preloaded insge boot/mfroot... Trying to mount root from ufs /dev/md0 After it hangs, I waited about half hour and had to power down the machine. Dell PowerEdge 1950 and 200 are not affected. Any help? TIA, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
