[nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 9 installation failure

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Fri Oct 19 16:37:07 EDT 2012


On Friday, October 19, 2012 4:14:49 pm Matt Juszczak wrote:
> It was 9.0-RELEASE downloaded last week from freebsd.org. 

Hmm, I would still talk to Glen (cc'd) in case he has a workaround you can 
try.

> Matt
> 
> 
> ------Original Message------
> From: John Baldwin
> To: talk at lists.nycbug.org
> Cc: Matt Juszczak
> Cc: Brett Wynkoop
> Subject: Re: [nycbug-talk] FreeBSD 9 installation failure
> Sent: Oct 19, 2012 3:27 PM
> 
> On Friday, October 19, 2012 12:22:51 pm Matt Juszczak wrote:
> > Just a follow up on this thread --
> > 
> > The data center tried two different chasis, two different RAID cards, two 
> > different ISOs including the boot only.  The install is still failing -- 
> > once they add the basic user, the install restarts itself.
> > 
> > The box is a poweredge t110:
> > 
> > http://www.dell.com/us/business/p/poweredge-t110/pd
> > 
> > That should be compatible with the amd64 FreeBSD 9 image, right?
> 
> Are you using 9.1 or 9.0?  There are some reports that the 9.1 RC image
> isn't properly installing part of the boot code and that may explain this.
> gjb at FreeBSD.org is currently looking at that issue.
> 
> -- 
> John Baldwin
> 
> 
> 

-- 
John Baldwin



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