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To: Craig Huckabee <huck@nosc.mil>
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Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge 2300 - more information
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Craig Huckabee wrote:
> 
> That didn't work either - got the F1 to retry reboot... message again.
> 
> HELP!
> 

There is a thread in the archives where I tried to get 4.0 going on a
Poweredge 2450 and ended up giving up due to problems with both the
onboard RAID controller and the SMP. Both of these particualr problems
have since been fixed, but I wouldn't be surprised if there were other
issues keeping you from installing....Not that I don't like Dell, just
seems that generic stuff works better with FreeBSD.

Josh

> --Craig
> 
> At 10:23 AM 8/18/00 -0400, you wrote:
> 
> >I've been allocating the disk as dangerously dedicated - I'm trying a
> >different setup now.  Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Craig
> >
> >
> >>Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2000 12:16:02 -0400
> >>To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
> >>From: Craig Huckabee <huck@nosc.mil>
> >>Subject: Dell PowerEdge 2300 - install help needed
> >>
> >>
> >>Anybody done an install on a Dell Poweredge 2300 recently that can help me ?
> >>
> >>The 4.1 install seems to run OK, it sees the hard drive I have connected
> >>to the internal Adaptec 7860 (a 2GB Seagate), and it sees the RAID
> >>controller.  The first time I tried the install, I had geometry problems,
> >>so I turned off the geometry translation on the Adaptec controller.  The
> >>next time I tried installing, the boot failed - I get a message from the
> >>BIOS that prompts me to hit F1 to retry the reboot or F2 to enter setup.
> >>
> >>Any ideas ?  What's the deep magic needed here ?
> >>
> >>Thanks,
> >>Craig
> >
> >Craig Huckabee                          huck@spawar.navy.mil
> >Systems Engineer, Compliance Corporation        (843) 218 6459
> >SPAWAR Systems Center - Charleston, Charleston, SC
> >
> >
> >
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> Craig Huckabee                          huck@spawar.navy.mil
> Systems Engineer, Compliance Corporation        (843) 218 6459
> SPAWAR Systems Center - Charleston, Charleston, SC
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