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Date:      Tue, 8 Aug 2000 22:00:51 -0500
From:      "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@hutchtel.net>
To:        "Daniel Lang" <dl@leo.org>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200
Message-ID:  <019b01c001ae$07ac3f00$ae440ace@mark8>
References:  <20000808144202.A14579@atrbg11.informatik.tu-muenchen.de>

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Daniel Lang" <dl@leo.org>
To: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>; <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Sent: Tuesday, August 08, 2000 9:42 AM
Subject: Installation Problems on Dell PowerEdge 6100/200


> Hi,
>
> we've got a Dell PowerEdge 6100/200 here, which is an older
> SMP server, featuring 4 PPro 200 CPU's two internal AIC7880
> channels and an Adaptec 2940UW PCI controller. One of the
> AIC's is connected to a SCA Backplane that holds 4 disks.
>
> Now before even having a chance to see if FreeBSD-SMP
> works with this box, I didn't manage to install FreeBSD
> (4.1) correctly. Well, installation seems to go well in
> any attempt:
>
> - Floppy boots, Kernel finds all ahc's and disks
> - Installation seems to succeed (Partitioning, installation, etc)
>
> But then, the machine won't boot. It seems to happen, that the
> MBR of the target device (da0, which is the first disk on the
> second controller, channel A of internal AIC's) is found, but
> the next stage of the bootstrapping process cannot be found.
> I played also around using boot0 and installing on other disks,
> this is like what I got:
>
> Standard MBR and System on da0: -> Missing operating system
> boot0 MBR and System on da0:    -> F1 -> *beep* (nothing else)
> boot0 MBR (and old System) on da0, standard MBR and System on da1:
> booting from da0: F1 -> *beep*, F5 (disk2) -> Missing operating system
> booting from da1: -> Missing operating system
>
> So it seems no boot-block after the MBR can be found.
>
> I tried: - installing and booting from different disks on internal ahc
>          - disabling some of the controllers
>          - installing and booting from a disk on the 2940,
>            as well while disabling the others
>
> It all had no effect.
>
> All adaptec's BIOS has Disks > 1GB and INT13 enabled (of course the
> BIOS itself is enabled, too)
>
> Previously Solaris 7/x86 was running on this machine, there
> were no such problems, but we don't really want to run Solaris... :-}
>
> Any clue ?
>

If it is worth anything, I tried installing on a poweredge 2450 once and to
make a long story short couldn't get the onboard RAID to work or the SMP to
work.  I hear it got sent back for something else (that wasn't a dell!)

Josh

> Many thanks,
>  Daniel
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