From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Fri May 23 10:34:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80E3537B401 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc51.attbi.com (rwcrmhc51.attbi.com [204.127.198.38]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E87F843F75 for ; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from bmah.dyndns.org (12-240-204-110.client.attbi.com[12.240.204.110]) by attbi.com (rwcrmhc51) with ESMTP id <20030523173401051006fmbde>; Fri, 23 May 2003 17:34:01 +0000 Received: from intruder.bmah.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bmah.dyndns.org (8.12.9/8.12.9) with ESMTP id h4NHY19c008084; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@intruder.bmah.org) Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.12.9/8.12.9/Submit) id h4NHY0qA008083; Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 10:34:00 -0700 From: "Bruce A. Mah" To: Billy Kimble Message-ID: <20030523173400.GA8060@intruder.bmah.org> References: <5.2.1.1.2.20030522181313.02db1058@mailhost.ebaseweb.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="huq684BweRXVnRxX" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.2.1.1.2.20030522181313.02db1058@mailhost.ebaseweb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Don't know who to e-mail about this X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 17:34:02 -0000 --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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= =20 > trouble installing BSD 2.8 on my Dell PowerEdge 600SC and I think it will= =20 > be a common problem for anyone installing to variety of dell servers. Eve= ry=20 > time I tried to boot to the CD, it kept gettin stuck at "ata0: resetting= =20 > devices"... I let it sit there for 60 minutes once and it never progresse= d=20 > past that point. The problem was that dell factory ships any servers with= =20 > IDE hard drives, with the hard drives on the same IDE channel .. and put= =20 > the jumpers on "Auto Select". We had 2 hard drives in the box, so the=20 > solution was to move the 2nd hard drive to the secondary master, or=20 > tertiary master. Hope this helps, and if this isn't where I need to send= =20 > 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. --huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE+zluI2MoxcVugUsMRAkNzAJ4uCyXxThTHVV1ZT6nBvGr5mbeceACgy/Rd 127wClbDqvgOhOXqpsHKUDA= =sADx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --huq684BweRXVnRxX--