Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:45:19 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> Subject: Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot Message-ID: <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com>
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Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been frustrating. > > I've got two FreeBSD 6.2 instances installed on two M600 blades, and am > moving to a new datacenter with M600 blades and trying to install FreeBSD > 7.2 or 8. But as others on this list and elsewhere have mentioned, > seemingly without resolution, is that it doesn't work. > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-July/029147.html > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=486 > > I was able to install 6.4 on it today, but I'm still at a loss as to why > 7.x and even 8.x will not. Did the architecture change in such a way that > it could no longer support M600 blades? Did someone leave something out of > the standard ISO kernel? Am I not doing it right? > > Happy to pass along my dmesg.boot; Hello, from the two URLs you provide, it seems that i386 is working (for all FreeBSD versions) and only amd64 is failing : can you confirm this ? then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding and a failing kernels (verbose !) TfH PS : is there any more recent version of the Dell BIOS ? > I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this, > or where to look for documentation that says something in the M600 is no > longer supported, or that what was supported in the M600 was changed that > now causes FreeBSD to hang instead of booting. > > Beckman > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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