FreeBSD 7.0 64 bits or 32 bits not installing on Dell PowerEdge SC1435

Felipe Neuwald felipe at neuwald.biz
Tue Apr 8 12:36:10 UTC 2008


The guys from Dell came here and changed mother board, performed bios 
and devices upgrade, and I got the same problem. I'll send a bug report.

Thanks,

Felipe Neuwald.

Jonas Lund escreveu:
> There's probably something with the controller then. If you're not
> proficient with C code and debugging i guess the easiest solution
> would be to report it and wait for 7.1 or see the release notes for
> supported controllers and connect your disks through that, not ideal
> but if you're desperate it's a way :)
>
> Seeing how it actually works on earlier releases and touches on some
> quite basic functionality it should be a fairly highly rated bug once
> it gets into the system IMHO.
>
> Bug report to:
> http://www.freebsd.org/send-pr.html
>
> / Jonas Lund
>
> 2008/4/3, Felipe Neuwald <felipe at neuwald.biz>:
>   
>> John Baldwin escreveu:
>>
>>     
>>> On Monday 31 March 2008 02:52:13 pm Felipe Neuwald wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>>>> Hi Folks,
>>>>
>>>> I'm trying to install FreeBSD 7.0 (64 and 32 bits) on a Dell PowerEdge
>>>> SC1435 server. I already run FreeBSD 6.2 and 6.3 on these server, but
>>>> now, I can't install FreeBSD 7.0.
>>>>
>>>> If I try to install an older version of FreeBSD, everything is ok. I
>>>> already tryed to install using CD-ROM or FTP. In both cases, I got
>>>> errors like I have HDD failure, and I already executed all Dell tests,
>>>> and the disk is ok.
>>>>
>>>> Does anybody already installed FreeBSD 7.0 on a PowerEdge SC1435 server?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>         
>>> What specifically is not working?  Is it hanging on boot or something
>>>       
>> else?
>>     
>>>
>>>       
>>  Complementing: I changed the HDD, and I got the same error.
>>
>>  Felipe Neuwald.
>>
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