From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 16 14:47:28 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 641AE16A400 for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E5AA13C45D for ; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:47:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 1948 invoked from network); 16 Apr 2007 14:19:27 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail5.sea5.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 16 Apr 2007 14:19:27 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 8F1F928439; Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:19:26 -0400 (EDT) To: "Philip M. Gollucci" References: <461F01F2.50606@p6m7g8.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:19:26 -0400 In-Reply-To: <461F01F2.50606@p6m7g8.com> (Philip M. Gollucci's message of "Thu\, 12 Apr 2007 21\:07\:14 -0700") Message-ID: <44zm58flld.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.97 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Dell PowerEdge SC1435 and FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 14:47:28 -0000 "Philip M. Gollucci" writes: > Hi, > > A company bought 3 of these and had issue installing FreeBSD on them > (I'm currently off site) saying it hung very early in the boot process > from CD for 6.2 amd64 and the monitor went blank. Can anyone here > comment on their experiences with this ? > > I've included some links below too. > > http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bscwek1&s=bsd > Dual Core 2216 Processor; > 2X1MB Cache, 2.4GHz Opteron, > 1Ghz HyperTransport for PowerEdge SC 1435 > Dual Core Opteron 2nd Processor, > 2x1MB Cache, 2.4GHz > 1Ghz HyperTransport for PowerEdge SC 1435 > 4GB Memory, 4x1GB, 667MHz, Single Ranked DIMMs > Broadcom TCP/IP Offload EngineNot Enabled > Riser with 1 PCIe Slot for PowerEdge SC1435 > 250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive > SAS 5IR SAS, PCI-Express Internal RAID Adapter > On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter, No TOE > 24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive for PowerEdge SC 1435 > Bezel for PESC1435 > 250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive > Add-in SATA/SAS controller, 2 Hard Drives, RAID 1, PowerEdge SC1435 > Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universal > > http://www.freebsdsystems.com/sata2_rackserver_multicore.php > Seems to validate the video card an ATI ES1000 16MB is okay. > > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-hardware/2006-December/004103.html > seems to say it works in general. You'll need to look at the specific messages for information, but trying i386 might give you more information. The video isn't relevant; any video at all should support console text fine.