Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:51:29 -0700 From: Hoang Lang-E11272 <lang@motorola.com> To: current@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Problem install FreeBSD 6.0 on Dell PowerEdge 2850 Message-ID: <5FFD364E98D43341BC7CE222D295A68B1B3647@ct11exm62.ds.mot.com>
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Thank you all for your help. I finally got FreeBSD 6.0 to install on my Dell 2850 by changing the bios setting from Internal RAID to SCSI. The installation went smothly, so I guess there is the something with the RAID driver in FreeBSD 6.0 -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-current@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Hoang Lang-E11272 Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2005 2:16 PM To: current@freebsd.org Subject: Problem install FreeBSD 6.0 on Dell PowerEdge 2850 Dell PowerEdge 2850 (2) 2.8GHZ, 2GB RAM I configure 2 hard drive as RAID 1 or 2 drives as RAID 0 each but still having same problem. I upgraded to latest bios A04 and LSI Logic Perc 4e/Di Raid firmware to 521S-A05 but still having problem when installing FreeBSD 6.0 both i386 and ADM64. It is hanging at Extracting Base into / directory ... at 45%. I tried so many times with different CDs as well. When I hit Alt + Control+ Delete, error come up " Write failure on transfer! (wrote 655360 bytes of 1425408 bytes) (100%) Press enter or space OK. If I hit Alt+Control+Delete again, another message User Confirmation Requested "Unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0. Do you want to try to retrieve it again? If I hit yes, "Unable to open base/base.inf: User interrupt... Reinitialize media? This machine didn't have any problem with CentOS 4 or FreeBSD 5.4. I already spent couple days already but no luck at all. I need help please Thank you, _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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