Date: Sat, 29 Jul 2006 23:15:25 -0400 From: Vivek Khera <vivek@khera.org> To: Denny Reiter <scrman@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Sunfire X4100 Message-ID: <FEDE9D2C-D3EE-46AD-878E-4CFB88A09728@khera.org> In-Reply-To: <44C97D06.1050901@gmail.com> References: <44C97D06.1050901@gmail.com>
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--Apple-Mail-36--171532921 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:57 PM, Denny Reiter wrote: > I just received a Sunfire X4100 and I'm trying to get FreeBSD 6.1 > to boot on it. It seems to stall when trying to poll UMASS, which > I got past once by booting into safe mode, but not every time. > > Does anybody have any pointers on getting it working? The one time > I did get anywhere, I got a screen asking for my country, but the > remote console seemed to have quit working. I've also tried a PS2 > keyboard connected to a USB adapter and it seems to see it as kbd1, > but doesn't seem to be useable, even from the BIOS. > 6.0-REL works on this box. perhaps try that. we are planning to upgrade to 6.1 soon. we do have a new x4100 in the office on which we'll install 6.1 so i'll report back any problems we might encounter. --Apple-Mail-36--171532921--
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