From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 15:29:54 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 AE28C16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:29:54 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: from bsd.ultra-secure.de (bsd.ultra-secure.de [62.146.20.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DCC043D5E for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 15:29:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from rainer@ultra-secure.de) Received: (qmail 45220 invoked by uid 89); 29 Dec 2005 15:29:47 -0000 Received: by simscan 1.1.0 ppid: 45212, pid: 45214, t: 4.7357s scanners: attach: 1.1.0 clamav: 0.86.2/m:33/d:1045 spam: 3.0.4 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.100.179?) (rainer@ultra-secure.de@213.196.191.65) by bsd.ultra-secure.de with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 29 Dec 2005 15:29:42 -0000 Message-ID: <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:29:42 +0100 From: Rainer Duffner User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Brancatelli References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> In-Reply-To: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.4 (2005-06-05) on bsd.ultra-secure.de X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham version=3.0.4 Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 15:29:54 -0000 Andrea Brancatelli wrote: >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). > > > Are you sure it's not USB? We have a LS20 blade-center and the whole media-bay (where floppy and cdrom live) and the KVM are connected via USB - it's even USB1.1, so installling something from CDROM is dead-slow (in addition, the brain-dead java remote-console together with this USB-CDROM-crazyness makes remote-installation of RHEL3+4 impossible...). Your floppy is not SCSI, rather it's connected via USB and the kernel makes it look like a SCSI-device... We've got no local drives, only SAN and as such FreeBSD is pretty much a no-go. I need something that works (and is supported) with my SAN... Rainer