From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Mar 11 22:36:17 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2663716A41F for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:36:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from mail.afflictions.org (asylum.afflictions.org [64.7.134.90]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B604E43D67 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:36:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dgerow@afflictions.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 89B5B78CA2 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:43:51 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail.afflictions.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pandora.afflictions.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 12835-08 for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:43:45 -0500 (EST) Received: from dementia.afflictions.org (dementia [172.19.206.56]) by mail.afflictions.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E931778C7D for ; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:43:44 -0500 (EST) Received: by dementia.afflictions.org (Postfix, from userid 1001) id BBAC71C080F; Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:35:58 -0500 (EST) Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 17:35:58 -0500 From: Damian Gerow To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060311223558.GE75666@afflictions.org> References: <20060228085822.GA88352@afflictions.org> <20060310233849.GA10106@afflictions.org> <44128D8C.2070302@gmx.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44128D8C.2070302@gmx.at> X-PGP-Fingerprint: B3D7 D901 A53A 1A99 BFD6 E6DF 9F3B 742B C288 9CC9 X-PGP-Key: 0xC2889CC9 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at pandora.afflictions.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2006 22:36:17 -0000 Thus spake lars@gmx.at (lars@gmx.at) [11/03/06 03:51]: : >I have yet to get it working, but I've been focusing explicitly on an : >Opteron blade using an amd64 install. It seems as though you may have luck : >by using an Intel blade (these are by far more common), and doing the : >install via the Java-based console provided by the Management Module. It : >seems as though the keyboard just 'works' once you boot into an installed : >system. : > : >However, as I've not personally gotten it to work (and won't be able to : >play : >with it for at least another two weeks), I can only say I suspect that : >approach will work. : : Maybe this might help: : http://wiki.bsdforen.de/index.php/FreeBSD_On_IBM_Blade For Intel blades, yes, as that's pretty much exactly what I suggested to do (although the wiki's a heck of a lot more thorough). But from the doc: There seem to be differences between Intel (Xeon) and AMD (Opteron) blades. Here I'm discussing an x86 Intel Blade Center system with Xeon CPUs running in 64bit-mode (hence the AMD64 ISO). AFAIK, nobody's gotten FreeBSD installed on an Opteron blade yet. The keyboard just doesn't work. Could someone who has FreeBSD running on an Intel blade submit ACPI debugging information, or otherwise troubleshoot why ACPI doesn't work? (If nobody wants to, I'll spend some time working on it next month.)