Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 14:56:23 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Joel Bradbury <joel@its.washington.edu> Subject: Re: Dell E521 won't boot FreeBSD Message-ID: <200610091456.23822.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4.2.2.20061005114011.00c0acd0@localhost> References: <4.2.2.20061005114011.00c0acd0@localhost>
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On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:42, Joel Bradbury wrote: > Well, it seemed like a good deal -- the new Dell E521 with an AMD 64 Athlon > 3200+, 1Gb memory, for $400 should make a decent, cheap server. But > FreeBSD just won't boot on it. I tried Release 6.1 (both amd64 and i386 > versions), as well as Releases 5.5 and 4.11. All give the same result when > trying to boot from the install cd: > > With the usb keyboard plugged in, the boot gets to a "panic: > ohci-add-done: addr 0x3bef1ba0 not found", and then it tries to reboot again. > With the keyboard unplugged, the ohci error never appears, but the boot > gets to a point of recognizing the SATA drive, and then just hangs. Last > message: "ad4: 152587MB <SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P ZM100-34> at ata2-master SATA300" Did you try the 'Safe Mode' option? -- John Baldwin
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