Dell M600 Blade: 6.4 works, 7.x and 8.x fail to boot

[Peter Beckman]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2009, Thierry Herbelot wrote:

> Le Saturday 14 November 2009, Peter Beckman a écrit :
> [SNIP]
>>>>>
>>>>> then, one of the first steps would be a the dmesg of both a succeeding
>>>>> and a failing kernels (verbose !)
>>>>
>>>>   I tried the bootonly ISOs for 7.x and 8.x, both amd64 and i386, all of
>>>>   which fail to boot on the Dell M600.

  So I was able to binary update from 6.4 to 7.0-RELEASE, but when I tried

     freebsd-update -r 8.0-RC3 upgrade

  After installing after that I get the same hanging I saw with the bootonly
  ISO.  The mpt0 device is loaded, pcib8, but after it hits atrtc0, it
  hangs.

  I'm trying what someone suggested previously -- install 8.0-RC3 using the
  6.4 install disk via the net.  I'm trying that now, but I'm not hopeful.
  I think I need to give up and move on that FreeBSD isn't going to work.

Beckman
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