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Date:      Wed, 1 Mar 2006 06:40:45 +0000
From:      Stacey Roberts <stacey@vickiandstacey.com>
To:        Damian Gerow <dgerow@afflictions.org>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20
Message-ID:  <20060301064045.GP20911@crom.vickiandstacey.com>
In-Reply-To: <20060301052606.GP3021@afflictions.org>
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Hi Damian!

On Wed, 01 Mar 2006, Damian Gerow wrote:

> Thus spake Stacey Roberts (stacey@vickiandstacey.com) [28/02/06 14:00]:
> : > Thus spake Axel S. Gruner (asg@suedfactoring.com) [28/02/06 05:22]:
> : > : go to boot loader prompt and type:
> : > :=20
> : > : unset acpi_load
> : > : load ispfw
> : > : load isp
> : > : set hint.atkbd.0.disabled=3D"1"
> : > : boot
> : > :=20
> : > : With these options i am able to boot the installation cd, also the =
keyboard is=20
> : > : working and, surprise surprise, with "load ispfw" i see also the dr=
ives in=20
> : > : the SAN (LUNs).
> : >=20
> : > Do isp/ispfw do any funkiness with the keyboard?  Even when booting w=
ith
> : > hint.atkbd.0.disabled=3D"1", my keyboard still doesn't work.
> :=20
> : If the above procedure from Axel doesn't work for you, what exactly are=
 you seeing at the moment. Does the keyboard
> : still "stop working" after sysinstal loads?
>=20
> Correct.  I suspect it stops working earlier, though.
>=20
> (I wish the chassis' had a serial port.)
>=20
> I've just been playing with various aspects of the above, as well as a few
> other things, and what I'm seeing is that as soon as control is passed to
> the kernel, all keyboard LEDs stop working.  They resume working when the
> keyboard is detected -- which it is, and seemingly accurately -- but the
> system doesn't respond to any key presses.
>=20
> I've tried with and without ACPI, with and without ispfw, disabling atkbd,
> setting atkbdc flags to 0x1, etc.  The USB hub is detected, and both the
> keyboard and mouse are detected, but I have no control over the system
> whatsoever.

Sorry for asking the obvious here, but exactly what type (make / protocols)=
 of keyboard are you using for the
installation?

Regards,

Stacey

>=20
> I'd love to at least pull a boot -v from the system, but I have no way ri=
ght
> now to get at it.
>=20
>   - Damian
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