From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 11:45:38 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 8DFCE1065679 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:45:38 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@free.fr) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1BEBD8FC16 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:45:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 220314C80F1 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:32 +0100 (CET) Received: from mail.herbelot.nom (bne75-4-82-227-159-103.fbx.proxad.net [82.227.159.103]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 280064C8049 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from tulipe.herbelot.nom (tulipe.herbelot.nom [192.168.2.5]) by mail.herbelot.nom (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id nAEBjPUW001331; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:45:26 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:45:19 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: In-Reply-To: X-Warning: Windows can lose your files X-Op-Sys: Le FriBi de la mort qui tue X-Org: TfH&Co X-MailScanner: Found to be clean MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 12:50:04 +0000 Cc: Peter Beckman Subject: Re: 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: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 11:45:38 -0000 Le Friday 13 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > 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; Hello, from the two URLs you provide, it seems that i386 is working (for all FreeBSD versions) and only amd64 is failing : can you confirm this ? then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding and a failing kernels (verbose !) TfH PS : is there any more recent version of the Dell BIOS ? > 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/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"