Dell E521 won't boot FreeBSD
Joel Bradbury
joel at its.washington.edu
Thu Oct 5 12:42:49 PDT 2006
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"
Anyone have any ideas of anything to try? There's not much to change in
the BIOS settings.
Btw, the BIOS is version 1.0.1 (9/23/2006). The only version currently
available on the Dell site is version 1.0.0 (!).
Linux boots and runs fine. I guess I may have to go with that.
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