Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:20:38 +0200 From: Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com> Subject: Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot Message-ID: <200911141720.38432.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141045500.10412@nog.angryox.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com> <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141045500.10412@nog.angryox.com>
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Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit : > On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote: > > 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; > > > > 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 !) > > I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of > which fail to boot on the Dell M600. aha ! anyway, even with a CDROM, you can boot *verbose* and note where the boot stops (even if there won't be a serial console, write down the blocking device probe) TfH > > I was able to boot the bootonly 6.4 ISO, install via the net, and a > friend suggested I try binary updating. I have been able to binary update > to 7.0-RELEASE thus far. I'm trying to get to 8.0-RC3 via binary update > now, and will report back. (a more robust, and slower, way to upgrade is via make buildworld / make buildkernel) > > I believe the issue is not with FreeBSD but the bootonly ISO. It could > also be a problem with the other ISOs, I'm not yet sure. we may get a hint if/when someone sends some verbose dmesg ;-) > > > PS : is there any more recent version of the Dell BIOS ? > > According to the iDRAC, the firmware 2.2.3 reported as installed is what > Dell reports as the latest version (August 2009). fine > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Peter Beckman Internet Guy > beckman@angryox.com http://www.angryox.com/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
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