From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 16:07:15 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D57416A420 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:07:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) Received: from efesto.telvia.it (efesto.telvia.it [213.155.192.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1655B43D4C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:06:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) Received: from storage.brancatelli.it (unverified [213.155.197.19]) by efesto.telvia.it (Vircom SMTPRS 5.3.228) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:06:48 +0100 Received: from skdevil.sara.it (host194-172.pool80207.interbusiness.it [80.207.172.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by storage.brancatelli.it (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBTG7qv6016563 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:07:53 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) From: Andrea Brancatelli To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:06:41 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> In-Reply-To: <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it> Subject: Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:07:15 -0000 Alle 16:29, gioved=EC 29 dicembre 2005, hai scritto: > >Here's the symptoms... when booting from CD the CD boots regulary, then > > the "searching for Kernel" part comes in, the whirl starts spinning and > > everything stop. I mean, it doesn't stop, it keeps spinning and spinning > > and spinning and spinning, but without doing anything. If I take the CD > > out of the drive it returns and error complaining it can't find the > > Kernel and asking me where it should look for it. > Are you sure it's not USB? > We have a LS20 blade-center and the whole media-bay (where floppy and > cdrom live) and the KVM are connected via USB - it's even USB1.1, so > installling something from CDROM is dead-slow (in addition, the > brain-dead java remote-console together with this USB-CDROM-crazyness > makes remote-installation of RHEL3+4 impossible...). Yes, you are right, it's a USB CD-Rom I mistakenly tought it was SCSI. Anyhow I got behind the CD Rom problem, now I'm trying to figure out how to= be=20 able to use the keyboard when Sysinstall starts... :-( =2D-=20 Andrea Brancatelli http://andrea.brancatelli.it/