Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" <bmah@freebsd.org> To: Billy Kimble <webmaster@ebaseweb.com> Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't know who to e-mail about this Message-ID: <20030523173400.GA8060@intruder.bmah.org> In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030522181313.02db1058@mailhost.ebaseweb.com> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030522181313.02db1058@mailhost.ebaseweb.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] If memory serves me right, Billy Kimble wrote: > I'm not sure who I need to be corresponding with but I just had a bit of > trouble installing BSD 2.8 on my Dell PowerEdge 600SC and I think it will > be a common problem for anyone installing to variety of dell servers. Every > time I tried to boot to the CD, it kept gettin stuck at "ata0: resetting > devices"... I let it sit there for 60 minutes once and it never progressed > past that point. The problem was that dell factory ships any servers with > IDE hard drives, with the hard drives on the same IDE channel .. and put > the jumpers on "Auto Select". We had 2 hard drives in the box, so the > solution was to move the 2nd hard drive to the secondary master, or > tertiary master. Hope this helps, and if this isn't where I need to send > this to, lemme know where I do :-P Later! This list is for discussion of FreeBSD documentation issues. General technical questions about FreeBSD should go to freebsd-questions@freebsd.org. (BTW, it's not clear to me exactly what OS you're trying to install. You mentioned "BSD 2.8" but there is no such thing FreeBSD 2.8. Maybe you mean a differnet version or OS?) Good luck! Bruce. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+zluI2MoxcVugUsMRAkNzAJ4uCyXxThTHVV1ZT6nBvGr5mbeceACgy/Rd 127wClbDqvgOhOXqpsHKUDA= =sADx -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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