From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Nov 14 16:20:57 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 F21D01065679 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:20:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from thierry.herbelot@laposte.net) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (smtp4-g21.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A12B8FC1C for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 16:20:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp4-g21.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp4-g21.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 699FB4C8163 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:20:50 +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 308214C8025 for ; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:20:48 +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 nAEGKhXl015891; Sat, 14 Nov 2009 17:20:44 +0100 (CET) From: Thierry Herbelot To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:20:38 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <200911141245.20217.thierry.herbelot@free.fr> 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-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200911141720.38432.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> 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 16:20:57 -0000 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/ > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------