DELL PowerEdge 2850 and FreeBSD 5.4

[Claus Guttesen]

> Firewire, usb all the NIC's except em and removed all RAID and SCSI
> controllers to make sure nothing would interfere.

Yes, but if you do not change the usbd_enable="YES" to "NO" in
/etc/rc.conf, it will load a kernel module which may trigger the
panic.

> I tried to boot with the AMD64 CD but with no success, the machine just
> hangs when it tries to load the CD, still trying to work out a solution to
> the problem, but it just seems these DELL 2850 machines are for Windows or
> RedHat!!!

Doubt it, I have three 2850's at work.

Claus