6.2-RELEASE on Sun Fire X2100

[Adriaan de Groot]

On Friday 23 February 2007 13:20, Dag-Erling Smørgrav 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=0000288b, 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 
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. 
Bear in mind that the front USB ports on the machine are very different from 
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 
the X4100 just failed completely with short reads under 6.2-STABLE.

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