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Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no>
Subject: Re: 6.2-RELEASE on Sun Fire X2100
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On Friday 23 February 2007 13:20, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> I have a brand new Sun Fire X2100 server (Opteron 148, 2 GB RAM) on
> which I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using a USB CD-ROM.
> The CD image is amd64-disc1 from ftp.no.freebsd.org, MD5 checksum OK.
> The server crashes while loading /boot/loader (eip=3D0000288b, IIRC).
>
> Is this a known issue, or should I suspect a problem with the drive or
> the USB BIOS?

There was a long thread on this, probably relevant: the BIOS does an INT10 =
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so at an inappropriate time. That might be relevant:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-November/009187.html

I had an X2100 two months back, that booted fine -- but from IDE, not USB.=
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Bear in mind that the front USB ports on the machine are very different fro=
m=20
the back USB ports. My X4100 only accepts a keyboard in the back.

Also the only USB drive (some cheap USB<->SATA enclosure) I've hooked up to=
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the X4100 just failed completely with short reads under 6.2-STABLE.

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