From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 9 04:43:34 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 23A2137B401; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 04:43:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1878843FDD; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 04:43:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id AB22D5310; Mon, 9 Jun 2003 13:43:31 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Tom Samplonius References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2003 13:43:30 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Tom Samplonius's message of "Fri, 6 Jun 2003 18:12:43 -0700 (PDT)") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: re@FreeBSD.org cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO 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, 09 Jun 2003 11:43:34 -0000 Tom Samplonius writes: > I guess I'm not the only one with hardware that is unusable with FreeBSD > 5.x, but FreeBSD 5.x simply is not installable on Dell PowerEdge 6350 > servers. FreeBSD 4.8 works fine on the same hardware. FreeBSD 5.0, > 5.1-BETA1, 5.1-BETA2, and 5.1-RC1 all die in sysinstall is detecting > hardware and drop the machine into the kernel debugger. It also kills the > display, making it tough to catch. I've tried with ACPI off. Same > result. What chipset does this machine use? I've recently seen similar problems on a friend's i810-based Toshiba Equium 3100M - with 4.7, 5.1, and some unknown incarnation of RedHat. I tried upgrading the BIOS and resetting it to "safe" defaults on the off chance that it was some kind of power management bug, to no avail. Immediately after sysinstall comes up and starts probing devices, the display goes blank, but the machine doesn't shut down - the PSU fan, CD-ROM and harddisk keep spinning. I can't remember whether the CPU fan stopped. Unfortunately, I didn't have a serial console available. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org