Has anyone been able to successfully install FreeBSD on a Dell R730?

[Alexandre Leonenko]

Might be related. Don't have r730 to test with.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666

I would try all usual troubleshooting steps. Use usb 2.0 to boot install image from. Try different usb vendors. Etc.

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From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org <owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org> on behalf of Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, May 8, 2021 9:02:05 PM
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Subject: Re: Has anyone been able to successfully install FreeBSD on a Dell R730?

It looks like this is the exact symtoms I get on FreeBSD 13 on a Dell R730

https://redmine.ixsystems.com/attachments/30618/BIOS_HBA_FreeBSD_error.JPG

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 8:58 PM Jack L. <xxjack12xx at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I just recently had a task to install some Dell R730 servers with
> FreeBSD 13 amd64 but no matter what I do, I can't seem to get the iso
> installer to get past usb and mfi/mrsas timeout errors.
>
> USB errors similar to
> uhub_reattach_port: port 1 reset failed, error=USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
> uhub_reattach_port: device problem (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT), disabling port 1
> uhub_reattach_port: port 1 reset failed, error=USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
> uhub_reattach_port: device problem (USB_ERR_TIMEOUT), disabling port 1
>
> and mfi gives COMMAND TIMEOUT AFTER xx SECONDS over and over.
>
> mrsas just crashes.
>
> Trying to install FreeBSD 12 results in kernel panic mid boot but it
> flashes too fast to see what it's crashing on.
>
> Any ideas?
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