From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Dec 7 11:36:21 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82C6216A428 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:36:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: from larfur.svaka.net (larfur.svaka.net [213.176.155.150]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B68E643D62 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:36:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Received: from ec.is (mx0-ec.svaka.net [213.220.85.66]) by mx20.svaka.net (BOGOMAIL) with ESMTP id jB7BaHcL083635 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:36:18 GMT (envelope-from gestur@ec.is) Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2005 11:41:16 -0000 Message-ID: <636A75F5E9CA8741A3136582949F95876E9548@postur.ecweb.local> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft Exchange V6.5.7226.0 X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: Thread-Topic: Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 Thread-Index: AcX6UrDR94utzN32RiKJpCw29SRFLQAAN3zAAAK3BMAAMDuSUAAA7Qlw From: "Gestur A. Grjetarsson" To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Subject: Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Dec 2005 11:36:21 -0000 =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