From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 9 21:44:47 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C13816A4CE for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:44:47 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web50209.mail.yahoo.com (web50209.mail.yahoo.com [206.190.38.50]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 2CAA843D3F for ; Wed, 9 Mar 2005 21:44:46 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nahthan666@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 99021 invoked by uid 60001); 9 Mar 2005 21:44:44 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=XmreYetjfXE21BAXpM2KeaJnOEJFWigvlX+Y+ETHywIXBDDrw+YHXcd2FgO9IrEQmBu9+sqQU+zSAknFN5ArFcRyE3zOKfGiI0Z4yduuUEqRRxaO/JgmCUfvSVPhTNBgd6Es4lhwBLI6y4JW/zWw3XXdRtk2/7Q4imAMogr7P3w= ; Message-ID: <20050309214444.99019.qmail@web50209.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [216.240.27.23] by web50209.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 09 Mar 2005 13:44:44 PST Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2005 13:44:44 -0800 (PST) From: nahthan subramanian To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.1 Subject: FreeBSD on IBM BladeCenter? X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 21:44:47 -0000 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: 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: 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