Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 22:18:04 -0500 From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> Cc: "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911142215510.10412@nog.angryox.com> In-Reply-To: <200911141819.12000.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com> <200911141720.38432.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141202580.10412@nog.angryox.com> <200911141819.12000.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net>
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On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > [SNIP] >>>>> >>>>> then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding >>>>> and a failing kernels (verbose !) >>>> >>>> I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of >>>> which fail to boot on the Dell M600. >>> >>> aha ! >>> >>> anyway, even with a CDROM, you can boot *verbose* and note where the boot >>> stops (even if there won't be a serial console, write down the blocking >>> device probe) >> >> Can you shoot me a link to the docs on how to do this? I haven't been >> able to find out how. > > speaking from memory : just before the kernel starts, you should have the > *loader* menu (with the ASCII graphics depicting beastie), where you can > choose between boot options, and option 5 is boot verbose (like 4 is boot > single) Not sure I have any more. Since I'm not in front of the console, and since the iDRAC only allows a "video" capture of the console, I made a video. http://drop.io/rk0eoap The Verbose option was selected, but it hung at the same place it did. I was using the 8.0-RC3 bootonly iso. It hung just after isab0, isa0 and atrtc0 loaded. The last line: atrtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock (resolution 1000000us) The machine is just fine, I installed NetBSD 5.0.1 on it, and I have FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE running on another blade adjacent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------help
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