Date: Mon, 9 Jun 2003 05:18:42 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: 5.1-RELEASE TODO Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.05.10306090516060.22232-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <xzpfzmj79y5.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On Mon, 9 Jun 2003, Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> writes: > > I guess I'm not the only one with hardware that is unusable with FreeBSD > > 5.x, but FreeBSD 5.x simply is not installable on Dell PowerEdge 6350 > > servers. FreeBSD 4.8 works fine on the same hardware. FreeBSD 5.0, > > 5.1-BETA1, 5.1-BETA2, and 5.1-RC1 all die in sysinstall is detecting > > hardware and drop the machine into the kernel debugger. It also kills the > > display, making it tough to catch. I've tried with ACPI off. Same > > result. > > What chipset does this machine use? I'm not sure. FreeBSD 4.8 does work on the machine, and I posted the 4.8 dmesg into the PR (#52561). There aren't too many quad Xeon chipsets... probably Intel or Serverworks. > I've recently seen similar problems on a friend's i810-based Toshiba > Equium 3100M - with 4.7, 5.1, and some unknown incarnation of RedHat. > I tried upgrading the BIOS and resetting it to "safe" defaults on the > off chance that it was some kind of power management bug, to no avail. > Immediately after sysinstall comes up and starts probing devices, the > display goes blank, but the machine doesn't shut down - the PSU fan, > CD-ROM and harddisk keep spinning. I can't remember whether the CPU > fan stopped. Unfortunately, I didn't have a serial console available. I've tried serial console as well (with 5.1-RC1), and it just stops after probing the disks. > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org Tom
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