From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 09:59:23 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2BE816A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:59:23 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) Received: from efesto.telvia.it (efesto.telvia.it [213.155.192.202]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AC2C443D4C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:59:21 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) Received: from storage.brancatelli.it (unverified [213.155.197.19]) by efesto.telvia.it (Vircom SMTPRS 5.3.228) with ESMTP id for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:59:20 +0100 Received: from skdevil.sara.it (host194-172.pool80207.interbusiness.it [80.207.172.194]) (authenticated bits=0) by storage.brancatelli.it (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id jBT9rBR6013777 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:53:11 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from andrea@brancatelli.it) From: Andrea Brancatelli To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:52:00 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 09:59:23 -0000 Hello everybody. Had a nice Xmas holidays? Hope so. I recently started working in a new company where I'm trying to evangelize FreeBSD. I succesfully got the internal proxies switched to FreeBSD and started to gain some credibility, so yesterday I got a free blade from their BladeCenter just for me to experiment with FreeBSD and such. So I popped in the FreeBSD CD-Rom (the mini-ISO) to install FreeBSD 6.0 on this nice machine but it didn't work out. Here's the symptoms... when booting from CD the CD boots regulary, then the "searching for Kernel" part comes in, the whirl starts spinning and everything stop. I mean, it doesn't stop, it keeps spinning and spinning and spinning and spinning, but without doing anything. If I take the CD out of the drive it returns and error complaining it can't find the Kernel and asking me where it should look for it. I don't have a kernel in my pocket so if it doesn't find the one on the CD I'm pretty blocked. Do anyone any interesting idea in how to solve this issue? The hardware layout, for those who may not know it. It's a dual xeon machine with 4gb of ram, 2 internal (S-ATA) drives (40gb each), one (possibily deactivable) internal Raid controller (deactivating this may be a good try, since Debiand refuses to see the drive as well with this turned on), a SCSI cdrom and a SCSI floppy drive. I don't have any fiber optic channel so the SAN/multipath and everything else is not an issue. The keyboard is a PS/2 one, so the USB keyboard isn't an issue as well (I'm writing this because I did some digging in the archives for similar problems). Is there anything I should try? Any idea? Thanks for any help you may provide. -- Andrea Brancatelli http://andrea.brancatelli.it/