Hi,
As a follow-up...
> I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell
> PowerEdge 2950.
>
> It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD:
>
> with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at:
> fdc0: ...
> device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6
>
> wi
Hi,
> I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running
> without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried
> another media - DVD instead of CD for example?
Hummm, I doubt that CD drives would fail on both machines, and I tried
also an external USB attached CD driv
Olivier Nicole wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers
> > running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950
> > (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one?
>
> Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year.
>
> > I'd make
Hi,
> I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running
> FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or
> whatever), or an older one?
Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year.
> I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC
> (i
Olivier Nicole wrote:
I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell
PowerEdge 2950.
It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD
I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running
FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new
