From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 3 21:45:00 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52AB637B401 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:45:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au (genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au [128.250.2.82]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87E9E43F93 for ; Sun, 3 Aug 2003 21:44:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grg@ridley.unimelb.edu.au) Received: (from root@localhost) by genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au (8.12.3p2/8.11.6) id h744iuQA037835 for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:44:56 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grg@ridley.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) h744isn3037827 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:44:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grg@ridley.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from localhost (grg@localhost)id h744irOg037824 for ; Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:44:54 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from grg@ridley.unimelb.edu.au) X-Authentication-Warning: genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au: grg owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 14:44:53 +1000 (EST) From: Glen Gibb To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20030804143157.S37470-100000@genesis.ridley.unimelb.edu.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS perl-11 Subject: Problems booting 5.1 RELEASE and CURRENT on Dell PowerEdge 600SC - workaround X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2003 04:45:00 -0000 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