Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 10:48:43 -0500 From: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> To: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@free.fr> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot Message-ID: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141045500.10412@nog.angryox.com> In-Reply-To: <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com> <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --0-151665445-1258213723=:10412 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a =C3=A9crit : >> I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been frustrati= ng. >> >> I've got two FreeBSD 6.2 instances installed on two M600 blades, and a= m >> moving to a new datacenter with M600 blades and trying to install Free= BSD >> 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.ht= ml >> http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=3D486 >> >> I was able to install 6.4 on it today, but I'm still at a loss as to w= hy >> 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 o= ut of >> the standard ISO kernel? Am I not doing it right? >> >> Happy to pass along my dmesg.boot; > > from the two URLs you provide, it seems that i386 is working (for all F= reeBSD > 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 !) I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of which fail to boot on the Dell M600. I was able to boot the bootonly 6.4 ISO, install via the net, and a fri= end suggested I try binary updating. I have been able to binary update to 7.0-RELEASE thus far. I'm trying to get to 8.0-RC3 via binary update n= ow, and will report back. I believe the issue is not with FreeBSD but the bootonly ISO. It could also be a problem with the other ISOs, I'm not yet sure. > PS : is there any more recent version of the Dell BIOS ? According to the iDRAC, the firmware 2.2.3 reported as installed is wha= t Dell reports as the latest version (August 2009). -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- Peter Beckman Internet G= uy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.co= m/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------= -- --0-151665445-1258213723=:10412--
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