From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 23:08:17 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 076DD16A400 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:08:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from magellan.palisadesys.com (magellan.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.211]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E7043D5E for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:08:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Received: from [172.16.1.108] (cetus.palisadesys.com [192.188.162.7]) (authenticated bits=0) by magellan.palisadesys.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k2SN8Dwu067489 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:08:13 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ghelmer@palisadesys.com) Message-ID: <4429C1DC.8070605@palisadesys.com> Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 17:08:12 -0600 From: Guy Helmer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5 (Windows/20051201) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Samplonius References: 20060301064805.GS3021@afflictions.org <4429ACC9.9080904@uniserve.com> In-Reply-To: <4429ACC9.9080904@uniserve.com> X-Palisade-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-Palisade-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Palisade-MailScanner-From: ghelmer@palisadesys.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: mike@uniserve.com, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installing FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM BladeCenter HS20 - IT WORKS! 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: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 23:08:17 -0000 Tom Samplonius wrote: > Axel, > > Hi, I was reading your post in regards to installing FreeBSD on the > BladeCenter that you made to freebsd-stable. I've also been trying > installing FreeBSD on the BladeCenter. During my installs, it hangs > during the SCSI disk probes (Waiting for SCSI disks to settle). That > should only take 5 seconds, but it sits there for a long time. I have > some questions: > > 1. Disabling acpi. What happens for you if acpi is not disabled? I > never tried this, and I'm not sure if this fixes anything or not. > What did it do for you? > > 2. Keyboard. Have you tried BETA4? I think the new kbdmux stuff will > mean that the keyboard does not need to be disabled. > 3. ispfw. I tried both with and without the firmware. I didn't make > any difference. It would still hang. What kind of storage are you > installing onto? I'm working with an IBM DS400 (aka T600). If these are the same blades as the Intel SBX82 blades, then the code that drains the keyboard interface at boot time will cause the system to hang if the ps/2 keyboard (atkbdc?) isn't disabled. Devon H. O'Dell just sent me a list of his PRs yesterday (via the freebsd-amd64 list) that resolve this problem and several others: I've implemented a fix for this utilizing ACPI reboots. Please apply kern/94939 and tell me if shutdown(8) with -r or reboot(8) works for you. My suspicion is that it will. Also, you may be interested in kern/94822, as FreeBSD won't hang on start-up attaching atkbd(4). If you're working on Intel SBX82 blades, specifically, kern/94833 and bin/94815 may also be interesting to you. Maybe these would be helpful for you, also. Guy -- Guy Helmer, Ph.D. Principal System Architect Palisade Systems, Inc.