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Date:      Wed, 5 Mar 2008 23:28:12 -0800
From:      Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>
To:        Nicky Bulthuis <nicky@valuecare.nl>
Cc:        stable@freebsd.org, Huang wen hui <huang@gddsn.org.cn>
Subject:   Re: Can NOT  boot FreeBSD on Dell R900
Message-ID:  <20080306072812.GA79558@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
In-Reply-To: <47CF999F.2050502@valuecare.nl>
References:  <47CEA121.6050204@gddsn.org.cn> <47CF999F.2050502@valuecare.nl>

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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.

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| Jeremy Chadwick                                    jdc at parodius.com |
| Parodius Networking                           http://www.parodius.com/ |
| UNIX Systems Administrator                      Mountain View, CA, USA |
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