Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 20:40:25 GMT From: Jacco van Buuren <jasu@xs4all.nl> To: freebsd-i386@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/105196: Dell E512 fails to boot FreeBSD Message-ID: <200701242040.l0OKePC9098722@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/105196; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Jacco van Buuren <jasu@xs4all.nl> To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, kolstad@ace.DELOS.COM Cc: Subject: Re: i386/105196: Dell E512 fails to boot FreeBSD Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:13:36 +0100 Hi, Came across your problem report. I happen to experience just the EXACT same thing when booting 6.2 Release AMD64 on my brand new Dell E521 (AMD 64 4200+ X2, nVidia Geforce 6150). After some googling it seems that a BIOS upgrade fixes this. I went from bios version 1.0.3 to 1.1.4 and then booted FreeBSD 6.2 Release AMD64 without any problems (although I haven't installed it (yet)). I haven't looked at the i386 version yet... On a side note: This problem is repeating itself all the way into Linuxland and is/was widely discussed in the Dell forums, so I assume it's not a strictly BSDish related problem. Please note however that this report is probably the same as 104810. Dell E521 Bios update: http://support.dell.com/support/downloads/download.aspx?c=us&cs=04&l=en&s=bsd&releaseid=R142794&SystemID=DIM_P4_E521&os=WW1&osl=en&deviceid=308&devlib=0&typecnt=1&vercnt=3&formatcnt=1&libid=1&fileid=190574 HTH, Jacco
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