FreeBSD6 on PowerEdge 4200

[Doug White]

On Thu, 2 Feb 2006, Enrique Ayesta Perojo wrote:

> Hello, i'm trying to install FreeBSD6 on an old PowerEdge 4200. But i cannot
> even get to sysinstall, when it's booting from the cd it gets to a point
> where the system reboots, these are the messages i can see on the console:
>
> ...
> amr0: <LSILogic MegaRAID 1.51> port 0xf480-0xf4ff irq 9 at device 19.0 on pci0
> amr0: busmaster bit not set, enabling

Try updating the system BIOS and the PERC card's firmware to the latest,
and make sure the card is enabled in the BIOS (if its onboard).
This indicates the device isn't being configured properly by the BIOS.

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