Re: Can't load kernel, trying to install on a Dell R900.
- From: tomasz dereszynski <tomaszd@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:54:11 +0000
Nicky Bulthuis wrote:
Mel wrote:you sure there is not option in bios about supported systems or something?
On Thursday 28 February 2008 12:51:10 Nicky Bulthuis wrote:Well, i've made some progress with your suggestions.
I'm having 'a lot' of troubles installing FreeBSD on a new Dell R900
from CD. Somehow it just doesn't seem to be able to load the kernel
from
the CD.
The machine is turned on with the CD is inserted.
It shows the message of the BTX Loader and then it stops with an error
message:
can't load 'kernel'
At first i figured my CD was broken, so i used a different image. Still
no dice, same error message. I've tried 6.2 (amd64), 6.3 (amd64) and
7.0
(amd64), sadly none of them work.
I've disabled the internal CDrom drive and used an external USB CDrom
drive. I figured, perhaps the internal cdrom drive is incompatible with
FreeBSD. Sadly that also didn't work.
Output from lsdev:
cd devices:
cd0: Device 0x0
disk devices:
disk0: Bios drive C:
What does ls / give? And ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel?
Been a while since I loaded a kernel manually, but I think:
boot -v cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel
should do the trick.
Does any of that give more hints to what might be the problem?
First things first, i had already updated the BIOS from version 1.1.0
to 1.1.3, the latest i could find on the Dell website.
"ls /" and "ls -l /boot/kernel/kernel" both give me 'bad path'.
"boot -v cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel" gives two messages, "can't boot
kernel" followed by "no bootable kernel"
Using 'ls cd0:/' gives me the cdrom file listing, so that works. I can
browse the cdrom directory structure.
I've done 'load cd0:/boot/kernel/kernel', which actually loads the
kernel.
I get the 'text[memadres] data[memaddress] syms[memaddress]' messages,
and 'lsmod' shows me a loaded kernel.
however, running 'boot -v' doesn't seem to work. It shows me the
progressbar "|-/\", make a full circle, but stops right after.
ive seen exactly the same problem with OpenBSD on HP boxes and you have
to disable one option in bios (can find out how is it called but its HP
not DELL) and then it works just fine
if you are 100% sure it is nothing to do with bios then sorry for
bothering you with my ideas.
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numquam confusa recedit | the same. In practice they are very
| different." -- Albert Einstein
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