From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 6 07:28:12 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DCA81065675 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: from mx01.sc1.parodius.com (mx01.sc1.parodius.com [72.20.106.3]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F1478FC28 for ; Thu, 6 Mar 2008 07:28:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@parodius.com) Received: by mx01.sc1.parodius.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 4F6411CC033; Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:28:12 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:28:12 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Nicky Bulthuis Message-ID: <20080306072812.GA79558@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <47CEA121.6050204@gddsn.org.cn> <47CF999F.2050502@valuecare.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <47CF999F.2050502@valuecare.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Huang wen hui Subject: Re: Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2008 07:28:12 -0000 On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:13:35AM +0100, Nicky Bulthuis wrote: > I'm having the same problem with an R900. Doesn't matter if you choose > 6.2 or 6.3 either. I've also tried booting from USB Pen Drive, USB > CD-Rom Drive and booting with PXE, all give the same 'can't load kernel' > error. Re: unable to boot FreeBSD off of USB: this is a known problem/limitation with BTX. GRUB does not have this problem, so if you can install GRUB on said medium, it should work. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |