Date: Wed, 4 Jul 2001 15:24:10 +0100 From: "Rob" <rob@robhulme.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Install fail on Dell PowerEdge 1550 Message-ID: <LPBBLIHFHEKDFLJEBFJGEEMJDKAA.rob@robhulme.com>
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Hi, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 4.3 from an ISO image I got from ftp.uk.freebsd.org on a Dell PowerEdge 1550 server. I can't seem to get it to work... I've tried several different options in the installation process, and everything installs 'ok', but then when it reboots it doesnt work. If I did an install using a standard MBR rather than the bootmanager I just get the message 'Missing Operating System', and it won't do anything... if I install using the boot manager I get this: F1 FreeBSD Default: F1 _ (the cursor) The cursor flashes, but if I press enter or F1 or anything like that it just beeps at me... I'm now trying each time with a minimal install, using all the other default options (I'm pressing A for 'all' the space when asked how much of the harddrive I want to use). Does anyone have *any* ideas? I was getting this problem with 4.1 so I've spent a considerable amount of time getting hold of the 4.3 ISO, and getting it burnt :0( Its really annoying because a year ago as a pet project (at work) I put together a box using standard plain jane hardware (IDE etc...) which worked really well, and impressed the pants of everyone - since then we're totally going the BSD / open source route on everything, but now I've come to put it on some more powerful hardware it isn't working :0( Its got to be something I'm doing wrong... Help please! -Rob -------------------------------- http://www.robhulme.com http://www.christianunion.org.uk "May the forks be with us." - Blue Raja (Mystery Men) Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. ---- R. Buckminster Fuller To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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