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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On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > 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; > > 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 !) 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 friend 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 now, 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 what Dell reports as the latest version (August 2009). --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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