Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:44:53 +1000 (EST) From: Glen Gibb <grg@ridley.unimelb.edu.au> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Problems booting 5.1 RELEASE and CURRENT on Dell PowerEdge 600SC - workaround Message-ID: <20030804143157.S37470-100000@genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au>
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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
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