Hi folks,
as the title suggests, on my R730 the FreeBSD installer does not boot from a USB flash drive.
I reach the loader prompt, select normal boot, then the wall of text appears which eventually hangs on:
which at some point reduces to just the first two elements, then just
After some time it fails into a prompt that does not accept any keyboard input (at least via iDRAC).
I'm quite lost as to why this is the case and I'm reluctant to blame it on the hardware,
Ubuntu Server 20.04 or Proxmox VE boot just fine.
It also has no exotic RAID hardware installed, just the internal backplane with 8 SAS/SATA slots.
The CPUs are two E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz with 192 GB ECC RAM.
In the PCIe risers are two Broadcom 4-Port GbE Cards that seem to be detected just fine if I interpret the boot output correctly.
There are currently two HDDs installed, but removing them does not seem to make a difference.
I've tried both legacy boot and UEFI, both without luck.
If you would like to see the BIOS settings, I'll happily provide screenshots.
To my knowledge, the latest firmware updates are installed.
Behind this link you'll find a recording of the iDRAC remote VNC window during boot:
Thanks in advance,
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Bennett
as the title suggests, on my R730 the FreeBSD installer does not boot from a USB flash drive.
I reach the loader prompt, select normal boot, then the wall of text appears which eventually hangs on:
Root mount waiting for: CAM usbus0 usbus1 usbus2
which at some point reduces to just the first two elements, then just
usbus0
.After some time it fails into a prompt that does not accept any keyboard input (at least via iDRAC).
I'm quite lost as to why this is the case and I'm reluctant to blame it on the hardware,
Ubuntu Server 20.04 or Proxmox VE boot just fine.
It also has no exotic RAID hardware installed, just the internal backplane with 8 SAS/SATA slots.
The CPUs are two E5-2660 v3 @ 2.60GHz with 192 GB ECC RAM.
In the PCIe risers are two Broadcom 4-Port GbE Cards that seem to be detected just fine if I interpret the boot output correctly.
There are currently two HDDs installed, but removing them does not seem to make a difference.
I've tried both legacy boot and UEFI, both without luck.
If you would like to see the BIOS settings, I'll happily provide screenshots.
To my knowledge, the latest firmware updates are installed.
Behind this link you'll find a recording of the iDRAC remote VNC window during boot:
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Thanks in advance,
--
Bennett