Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:45:14 -0500 From: Toby Boudreaux <toby@barbariangroup.com> To: Jan Mikkelsen <janm@transactionware.com> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't install FreeBSD 6.1 on DL145 G2 Message-ID: <0865B2B6-2FF3-4E0F-83FF-08C010A28465@barbariangroup.com> In-Reply-To: <000301c70309$d2bf9b70$3301a8c0@janmxp> References: <000a01c702b3$4418b560$0204a8c0@transactionware.com> <9C8D8F87-D2CE-4BEE-A4F7-FDF793ED241C@barbariangroup.com> <000301c70309$d2bf9b70$3301a8c0@janmxp>
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For the record, I tried booting off the i386 floppies using a USB floppy drive, and got the same panic-like screen. Seems all USB devices are problematic. I'll try to boot off a thumb drive today. -toby On Nov 8, 2006, at 2:45 AM, Jan Mikkelsen wrote: > Hi Tony, > >> Hi, Jan. Thanks for the reply. >> >> I think I've found the problem. >> >> I'm using a USB CD-ROM to install, and it seems to hit a bug with >> FreeBSD (#85257). >> >> I've tried to burn the ISO to my Sandisk Cruzer 2GB thumb drive >> and boot from it, but it never seems to boot. It just hangs with >> a blinking cursor. >> >> My server has no internal CD-ROM drive, and floppy support (I have >> a USB floppy drive) doesn't seem to work with the amd64 distro. >> >> I'm kind of stuck now. >> >> Any ideas on any front? :) > > You can boot off a USB key, you just need to put something other > than an ISO image on it. A UFS filesystem and a bootblock is > probably a good idea. > > However, the easiest thing to do is probably to set up a pxeboot > server and boot off an NFS image. For example: > > http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/article.html > > Regards, > > Jan. > >
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