Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 16:34:53 -0000 From: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" <gestur@ec.is> To: "Thomas Linton" <th.linton@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? Message-ID: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9E42@postur.ecweb.local>
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Hi I tried using freebsd floppies ,, by using that I could boot into = sysinstall ,, but the system doesn't see any disk devices other than the = USB disk which is 1Mb size. I tried to use custom kernel on the floppies and tweak the ISP driver, = to prevent the stall when the driver hangs during boot and get the = timeout, that with no result. the isp driver which is said to support the Qlogic 2312, is broken, it = doesn't work. kve=F0ja / best regards Gestur=20 -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Linton [mailto:th.linton@gmail.com]=20 Sent: 28. desember 2005 15:26 To: Gestur A. Grjetarsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? I tried to boot a 6.0 Installation CD on a HS20 Blade. I always get = "can't load 'kernel'" from the cdloader. If I type "lsdev" it shows me = no "cd devices"; a "ls" brings "open '/' failed:.." and the LED of the = cdrom-drive stays dark.=20 The BladeCenter is using a USB-CDROM and I think this is actually the = problem of booting a Blade from a freeBSD CD. Did you try a = Network-Based installation? How far did you come with your installation? On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:32:44PM -0000, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > Hi > =20 > I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN > =20 > now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience = on various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as it does'nt = work on IBM Blade. > I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this problem and done = alot of testing and hacking but without any progress. > =20 > so I have two questions: > =20 > is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade? > =20 > if it is going to support and work on IBM Blade, can you give me an = estimation on when it will be ready to run on IBM Blade? > =20 > kve=F0ja > Gestur > Iceland > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list=20 > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to = "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" --=20
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