From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Nov 13 19:58:26 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 265DC106566C for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:58:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from beckman@angryox.com) Received: from nog.angryox.com (nog.angryox.com [70.164.19.87]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9DBC8FC16 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:58:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nog.angryox.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nog.angryox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E45282C3D0E for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:07 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=angryox.com; h=date:from :to:subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type; s= powerfulgood; bh=EOnu9q7IXtnyjF42EyIwnHrCdgE=; b=BbjKVwJMeIzfKoO o/xjUepTwP6MFz1sutoannClF5u2dgoypj6wBJoZsQN1A/otn6+GBiVowb7Ztu5a V+vFn9G0RtA3OgYVM4Ih2xIBhP1LuHN5YotE8uf4eVD0z7XVc9GPdp0bhujE0X3T IGT3MxUM9KYc5jWUqih7XXUnXJcs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=angryox.com; h=date:from:to :subject:message-id:mime-version:content-type; q=dns; s= powerfulgood; b=dS/4rnos8oxg5GjhOxv7OW4DIk66tElOHECgz9qirt9Hu23Y Tej239NLfuPkXHI1ul92LPgr7Un+j43n162up5q76kROzy7yfF0DIiYTGs0uPyGH GIshcvnjHL9AEqCbFXrgLPzM+H1UlB55LpjQkm/auwYM3uYbiUZsWfFu6nM= Received: by nog.angryox.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id DC3352C3D08; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:42:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nog.angryox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB9422C3D05 for ; Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:42:07 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:42:07 -0500 From: Peter Beckman To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Message-ID: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:58:26 -0000 I've been scratching my head all day on an issue that's been frustrating. I've got two FreeBSD 6.2 instances installed on two M600 blades, and am moving to a new datacenter with M600 blades and trying to install FreeBSD 7.2 or 8. But as others on this list and elsewhere have mentioned, seemingly without resolution, is that it doesn't work. http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2009-July/029147.html http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=486 I was able to install 6.4 on it today, but I'm still at a loss as to why 7.x and even 8.x will not. Did the architecture change in such a way that it could no longer support M600 blades? Did someone leave something out of the standard ISO kernel? Am I not doing it right? Happy to pass along my dmesg.boot; I'm not sure how to troubleshoot this, or where to look for documentation that says something in the M600 is no longer supported, or that what was supported in the M600 was changed that now causes FreeBSD to hang instead of booting. Beckman --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Beckman Internet Guy beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------