Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, As a follow-up... I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Olivier Nicole o...@cs.ait.ac.th wrote: Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I got 2 PE2950 running 7.0/amd64 bought last summer - all running without problems. Maybe CD/DVD drives are failing? Have you tried another media - DVD instead of CD for example? Hummm, I doubt that CD drives would fail on both machines, and I tried also an external USB attached CD drive

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Olivier Nicole wrote: I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new

Re: Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I've had(and have) several fairly new Dell PowerEdge2950 servers running FreeBSD 7.1/amd64 just fine. Is this a brand new 2950 (2950 III, or whatever), or an older one? Depends how new is new, we bought it at the end of last year. I'd make sure that the BIOS, BMC, and PERC (if

Installing 7.1 amd64 on Dell powerEdge 2950

Hi, I spent a couple of days trying to install FreeBSD 7.1 amd64 on a Dell PowerEdge 2950. It won't finish booting properly from the installation CD: with default boot, single user and verbose it stops at: fdc0: ... device_attach: fdc0 attach returned 6 with ACPI disabled and Safe mode it