Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2007 15:26:20 +0100 From: Adriaan de Groot <groot@kde.org> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= <des@des.no> Subject: Re: 6.2-RELEASE on Sun Fire X2100 Message-ID: <200702241526.21129.groot@kde.org> In-Reply-To: <86wt29qd3o.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <86wt29qd3o.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Friday 23 February 2007 13:20, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote: > I have a brand new Sun Fire X2100 server (Opteron 148, 2 GB RAM) on > which I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE using a USB CD-ROM. > The CD image is amd64-disc1 from ftp.no.freebsd.org, MD5 checksum OK. > The server crashes while loading /boot/loader (eip=3D0000288b, IIRC). > > Is this a known issue, or should I suspect a problem with the drive or > the USB BIOS? There was a long thread on this, probably relevant: the BIOS does an INT10 = or=20 so at an inappropriate time. That might be relevant: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-amd64/2006-November/009187.html I had an X2100 two months back, that booted fine -- but from IDE, not USB.= =20 Bear in mind that the front USB ports on the machine are very different fro= m=20 the back USB ports. My X4100 only accepts a keyboard in the back. Also the only USB drive (some cheap USB<->SATA enclosure) I've hooked up to= =20 the X4100 just failed completely with short reads under 6.2-STABLE. =2D-=20 KDE Quality Team http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/ GPG: FEA2 A3FE http://people.fruitsalad.org/adridg/ "It is impossible to make an emphatic point with only two arms."
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