Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:41:16 -0000 From: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" <gestur@ec.is> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 Message-ID: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9548@postur.ecweb.local>
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=20 after alot of time spent in this problem, I still have no solution to = this and no help yet, is there nobody using IBM Blade and FreeBSD? =20 I've used FreeBSD since 1994 and never had a problem like this..... =20 but, I tried to boot from Gentoo Linux, and it detects everything fine = with all lun's useable without any apparent problem =20 =20 =20 is FreeBSD not going to support IBM Blade? it seems that I'm forced to stop using FreeBSD for Linux.... I'm not = happy. =20 =20 kve=F0ja/regards Gestur ________________________________ From: Gestur A. Grjetarsson=20 Sent: 6. desember 2005 12:18 To: 'freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org'; 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 hi =20 I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 =20 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from = 125 =20 =20 by doing this, I get the ISP driver working and no delay when the driver = boots =20 =3D> but when the system comes into sysinstall menu, I get no disks, it = seems that the system doesn't see any drives or lun's ,,, what is = causing this?? =20 please help me with this anyone! =20 =20 kve=F0ja/ best regards Gestur =20 =20 ________________________________ From: Gestur A. Grjetarsson=20 Sent: 6. desember 2005 10:57 To: 'freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org' Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 Hi =20 I have this new IBM Blade Center, which I would like to run FreeBSD on = with boot from SAN, when trying to boot I get problems and can't see any = disks from the SAN. =20 the configuration I have is a=20 =20 IBM Blade Center H40 DS400 diskbox with dual controller but only single connection Qlogic 2312 dual FC controller=20 =20 I have problem with the ISP driver:=20 =20 I tried to boot from the FreeBSD 6.0-Release cd but it always fails with = the error can't load kernel and I can't see the cdrom to boot from after = the boot loader has started. =20 So I downloaded the boot floppies and tried to boot the blade using the = floppies but it won't show me any drivers after a long waiting period = while the isp driver hangs for awile in the boot process. =20 I compiled a custom kernel and made new boot kern floppies to boot from, = and now I'm stuck with this error in the boot process: =20 isp0: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16 isp0: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero =20 =20 =20 =20 after reading all i've gathered on this subject and googl'd on it, I put = ispfw_load=3D"YES" line in the loader.conf ,, but without result =20 =20 =20 Can anyone point me out on how to solve this problem, I really need this = to work !?!? please help! =20 kve=F0ja/regards Gestur
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