Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:00:51 -0500 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net> To: "Daniel Lang" <dl@leo.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 Message-ID: <019b01c001ae$07ac3f00$ae440ace@mark8> References: <20000808144202.A14579@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Lang" <dl@leo.org> To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:42 AM Subject: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 > Hi, > > we've got a Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 here, which is an older > SMP server, featuring 4 PPro 200 CPU's two internal AIC7880 > channels and an Adaptec 2940UW PCI controller. One of the > AIC's is connected to a SCA Backplane that holds 4 disks. > > Now before even having a chance to see if FreeBSD-SMP > works with this box, I didn't manage to install FreeBSD > (4.1) correctly. Well, installation seems to go well in > any attempt: > > - Floppy boots, Kernel finds all ahc's and disks > - Installation seems to succeed (Partitioning, installation, etc) > > But then, the machine won't boot. It seems to happen, that the > MBR of the target device (da0, which is the first disk on the > second controller, channel A of internal AIC's) is found, but > the next stage of the bootstrapping process cannot be found. > I played also around using boot0 and installing on other disks, > this is like what I got: > > Standard MBR and System on da0: -> Missing operating system > boot0 MBR and System on da0: -> F1 -> *beep* (nothing else) > boot0 MBR (and old System) on da0, standard MBR and System on da1: > booting from da0: F1 -> *beep*, F5 (disk2) -> Missing operating system > booting from da1: -> Missing operating system > > So it seems no boot-block after the MBR can be found. > > I tried: - installing and booting from different disks on internal ahc > - disabling some of the controllers > - installing and booting from a disk on the 2940, > as well while disabling the others > > It all had no effect. > > All adaptec's BIOS has Disks > 1GB and INT13 enabled (of course the > BIOS itself is enabled, too) > > Previously Solaris 7/x86 was running on this machine, there > were no such problems, but we don't really want to run Solaris... :-} > > Any clue ? > If it is worth anything, I tried installing on a poweredge 2450 once and to make a long story short couldn't get the onboard RAID to work or the SMP to work. I hear it got sent back for something else (that wasn't a dell!) Josh > Many thanks, > Daniel > -- > IRCnet: Mr-Spock - My name is Pentium of Borg, division is futile, you > will be approximated. - > *Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 25735 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/* > > -- > IRCnet: Mr-Spock - May His Shadow fall upon thee - > *Daniel Lang * dl@leo.org * +49 89 289 25735 * http://www.leo.org/~dl/* > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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