Dell PowerEdge SC1435 and FreeBSD

[Philip M. Gollucci]

Hi,

A company bought 3 of these and had issue installing FreeBSD on them
(I'm currently off site) saying it hung very early in the boot process 
from CD for 6.2 amd64 and the monitor went blank.  Can anyone here 
comment on their experiences with this ?

I've included some links below too.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=04&kc=6W300&l=en&oc=bscwek1&s=bsd
Dual Core 2216 Processor;
	2X1MB Cache, 2.4GHz Opteron,
	1Ghz HyperTransport for PowerEdge SC 1435
Dual Core Opteron 2nd Processor,
	2x1MB Cache, 2.4GHz
	1Ghz HyperTransport for PowerEdge SC 1435
4GB Memory, 4x1GB, 667MHz, Single Ranked DIMMs
Broadcom TCP/IP Offload EngineNot Enabled
Riser with 1 PCIe Slot for PowerEdge SC1435
250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive
SAS 5IR SAS, PCI-Express Internal RAID Adapter
On-Board Dual Gigabit Network Adapter, No TOE
24X IDE CD-RW/DVD ROM Drive for PowerEdge SC 1435
Bezel for PESC1435
250GB, SATA, 3.5-inch 7.2K RPMHard Drive
Add-in SATA/SAS controller, 2 Hard Drives, RAID 1, PowerEdge SC1435
Sliding Rapid/Versa Rails and Cable Management Arm,Universal

http://www.freebsdsystems.com/sata2_rackserver_multicore.php
Seems to validate the video card an ATI ES1000 16MB is okay.

http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/htdig/freebsd-hardware/2006-December/004103.html
seems to say it works in general.

Thanks in advance.

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