Date: Thu, 05 Oct 2006 12:42:33 -0700 From: Joel Bradbury <joel@its.washington.edu> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Dell E521 won't boot FreeBSD Message-ID: <4.2.2.20061005114011.00c0acd0@localhost>
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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" Anyone have any ideas of anything to try? There's not much to change in the BIOS settings. Btw, the BIOS is version 1.0.1 (9/23/2006). The only version currently available on the Dell site is version 1.0.0 (!). Linux boots and runs fine. I guess I may have to go with that.
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