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Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7.x hang-on-boot on Dell 1950
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On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 16:56 -0500, Zaphod Beeblebrox wrote:
> 
> I've now verified that 8.0-RC3 does the same thing, BTW.
> 
> Anyways... no.  There is no floppy option in the BIOS.  It's not in 

Dell BIOS absolutely sucks.  You get what you pay for.

We have 25+ 9th gen systems.  Revision 1, with the older HT Xeons, are
all lemons.  

The only thing that runs stable on them in ESXi

R3 of the 1950 with the PERC6 and DRAC5 works fine on 6.3/amd64, 7.2,
etc.

~BAS

> any of the sub-menus (which is how Dell's BIOS is organized).  I'm
> also not-so-sure that the floppy is where it's stopping because the
> non-ACPI boot doesn't