Dell E521 won't boot FreeBSD

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday 05 October 2006 15:42, Joel Bradbury wrote:
> Well, it seemed like a good deal -- the new Dell E521 with an AMD 64 Athlon 
> 3200+,  1Gb memory, for $400 should make a decent, cheap server.  But 
> FreeBSD just won't boot on it.  I tried Release 6.1 (both amd64 and i386 
> versions), as well as Releases 5.5 and 4.11.  All give the same result when 
> trying to boot from the install cd:
> 
> 	With the usb keyboard plugged in, the boot gets to a "panic: 
> ohci-add-done: addr 0x3bef1ba0 not found", and then it tries to reboot again.
> 	With the keyboard unplugged, the ohci error never appears, but the boot 
> gets to a point of recognizing the SATA drive, and then just hangs.  Last 
> message: "ad4: 152587MB <SAMSUNG HD160JJ/P ZM100-34> at ata2-master SATA300"

Did you try the 'Safe Mode' option?

-- 
John Baldwin