Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: nahthan subramanian <nahthan666@yahoo.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD on IBM BladeCenter? Message-ID: <20050309214444.99019.qmail@web50209.mail.yahoo.com>
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Hi there, Any success stories out there of getting FreeBSD running on IBM BladeCenter hardware? It's not officially supported. It's designed to run Linux/*doze. Here's a document of my attempts: --------------------------- Hardware Information general: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/ chassis: http://tinyurl.com/4gcbw blade: http://tinyurl.com/6js9m HS20 blade machine type: 8843 HS20 blade model number: 11U Chassis model number: 8677-3XU Chassis machine type: 8843 Chassis model number: 11U basic blade config: Dual Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz hyper threading and EM64T support 4096MB memory ---------------- FreeBSD Installation media tried: tried with freebsd 5.3 i386 from floppy & CD tried with freebsd 4.ii i386 from floppy & CD -- tried with BIOS 1.2 on blade. tried with BIOS 1.0 on blade. -- tried with an extrenal USB keyboard connected, and without. -- tried with hyperthreading disabled in BIOS. tried with CPU cache enabled/disabled in BIOS. tried with CPU write back cache enabled/disabled in BIOS. tried with CPU prefetch queue enabled/disabled in BIOS. tried with CPU Execute Disable bit enabled/disabled in BIOS. -- tried with ACPI enabled/disabled from the installation prompt. nothing. Here are the crashes and error messages: ------- FreeBSD 5.3 boot from CD/floppy crash/panic: atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB UDMA 100 controller> port 0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at drvice 31.1 on pci0 fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode fault virtual address = 0x5 fault code = supervisor read, page not present instruction pointer = 0x8:0xc06200d0 stack pointer = 0x10:0xc1021914 frame pointer = 0x10:0xc1021914 code segment = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1 processor eflags = interrupt enabled, resume, IPOL=0 current process = 0 (swapper) trap number = 12 panic: page fault uptime: 1s shutting down ACPI stray IRQ 11 Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort Rebooting... Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FreeBSD 5.2.1 booting from CD, hangs on boot: acpi0: <IBM SERBLADE> on motherboard pcibios: BIOS version 2.10 acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR acpi0: Power Button (fixed) Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000 (...hangs here forever... machine completely locks up...) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ FreeBSD 4.11, booting from CD: Uncompressing ... done BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 629/3275513kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Jan 21 15:42:07 GMT 2005) Can't work out which disk we're booting from. Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defaulting to disk0: Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. Booting [kernel]... can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok ------------- FreeBSD 4.11, booting from floppy: Uncompressing ... done BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01 Console: internal video/keyboard BIOS drive C: is disk0 BIOS 629/3275513kB available memory FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8 (root@perseus.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Jan 21 15:42:07 GMT 2005) /kernel text=0x289d91 data=0x30170+0x32d04 zf_read: fill error elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load module '/kernel': input/output error - Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. booting [kernel]... /kernel text=0x289d91 data=0x30170+0x32d04 zf_read: fill error elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed can't load 'kernel' can't load 'kernel.old' Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help. ok ---------------------------- I can't think of much else to try for now. Any clues? Thanks. -Nate --------------------------------- Celebrate Yahoo!'s 10th Birthday! Yahoo! Netrospective: 100 Moments of the Web
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