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Logicien

Logicien

That's what I have been recently with FreeBSD. I tried to install the 14.2 x64 to a Dell Optiplex 7010. It have freeze on early boot. I tried with an sd card and a usb key. Same result. Than I have try on a Dell Inspiron 3250. Install succeed but after Internet access for installation of pakages, the installer failed to download the firmwares he asked for.

During that time I try a virtual install with Qemu, no success for me. Finally I have install it on an HP ProDesk 400 without any problem during the install. The screen was going blank because of drm-61-kmod. I have uninstall it and use a lower version. Than it was VirtualBox who was not working.

I have recompile VirtualBox from the ports and on the third try, it have compile passing the value of a variable before as asked. Recompile drm-61-kmod from the ports work now on first try. I cross my fingers. Everything go well on my only FreeBSD installation.
 
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Solved Thread 'FreeBSD on Intel Z series Atom chips'

It's been said before but I've installed FreeBSD on so many of my systems now it's drilled in my head. When the boot hangs here are the steps.

1. Option 3 at boot loader
2. unset hint.uart.1.at [enter]
3. boot [enter]
4. As root: vi /etc/device.hints
5. Comment out with "#" the line - hint.uart.1.at="isa"
6. Save with "w!"
7. Reboot all set.

I'm making this post at work while it's on my mind. This is from memory. I'll double check it later but should be accurate.

EDIT: luckily 8 of the systems I have I am booting from USB so I only have to set up one and then image the other drives. But this is...

Sorry this was mainly a headless machine quirk for UpBoard, LattePanda and AtomicPi and probably others with gpio/UARTs.
 
Which Optiplex 7010 are you trying? There are three models.

I am talking about Optiplex 7010 Micro. There is also 7010-SFF and 7010-MT
 
From dmidecode

Handle 0x0001, DMI type 1, 27 bytes
System Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: OptiPlex 7010
Version: 01
Serial Number: JG3KW12
UUID: 4c4c4544-0047-3310-804b-cac04f573132
Wake-up Type: Power Switch
SKU Number: OptiPlex 7010
Family: Not Specified

Handle 0x0002, DMI type 2, 15 bytes
Base Board Information
Manufacturer: Dell Inc.
Product Name: 0WR7PY
Version: A03
Serial Number: /JG3KW12/CN7220044G04OP/
Asset Tag: Not Specified
Features:
Board is a hosting board
Board is replaceable
Location In Chassis: Not Specified
Chassis Handle: 0x0003
Type: Motherboard
Contained Object Handles: 0
 
I missed the mark here. Dell 3030 and 3050 are the Wyse/Citrix 'Thin Clients' I was thinking about. Optiplex 7010 Micro is newer.

Micro= Small as your hand
SFF= Small form factor.
MT= Mini Tower.

This is the motherboard from your Dell code 0WR7PY
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So I am guessing Mini Tower? Possibly Small Form Factor.

I bet we could get it booting. I would start with flashing the BIOS to newest.
 
The Bios of the Dell OptiPlex 7010 is up to date A29. I retain that I can pass a parameter to FreeBSD at boot time

unset hint.uart.1.at

I will check if it work. I can simply create a Ufs filesystem on the OptiPlex, copy my fully working FreeBSD from the HP machine to it, make some adjustments and it will work.

Note: I cannot boot in Bios and EFI modes with the boot parameter.
 
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