Can NOT boot FreeBSD on Dell R900

Jeremy Chadwick koitsu at freebsd.org
Thu Mar 6 07:28:12 UTC 2008


On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 08:13:35AM +0100, Nicky Bulthuis wrote:
> I'm having the same problem with an R900. Doesn't matter if you choose
> 6.2 or 6.3 either. I've also tried booting from USB Pen Drive, USB
> CD-Rom Drive and booting with PXE, all give the same 'can't load kernel'
> error.

Re: unable to boot FreeBSD off of USB: this is a known
problem/limitation with BTX.  GRUB does not have this problem, so if you
can install GRUB on said medium, it should work.

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