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Date:      Sat, 14 Nov 2009 19:19:11 +0200
From:      Thierry Herbelot <thierry.herbelot@laposte.net>
To:        Peter Beckman <beckman@angryox.com>
Cc:        "freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG" <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot
Message-ID:  <200911141819.12000.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141202580.10412@nog.angryox.com>
References:  <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911131436000.10412@nog.angryox.com> <200911141720.38432.thierry.herbelot@laposte.net> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0911141202580.10412@nog.angryox.com>

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Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit :
[SNIP]
> >>>
> >>> 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)
>
>   Can you shoot me a link to the docs on how to do this?  I haven't been
>   able to find out how.

speaking from memory : just before the kernel starts, you should have the 
*loader* menu (with the ASCII graphics depicting beastie), where you can 
choose between boot options, and option 5 is boot verbose (like 4 is boot 
single)

	TfH
>
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Peter Beckman                                                  Internet Guy
> beckman@angryox.com                                 http://www.angryox.com/
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------





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