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Date:      Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:35:35 -0500
From:      John Nielsen <lists@jnielsen.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Andrea Brancatelli <andrea@brancatelli.it>
Subject:   Re: IBM Blade Center - FreeBSD on HS20 type MTM 8832/N1X
Message-ID:  <200512291135.35437.lists@jnielsen.net>
In-Reply-To: <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it>
References:  <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it>

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On Thursday 29 December 2005 11:06 am, Andrea Brancatelli wrote:
> Alle 16:29, gioved=EC 29 dicembre 2005, hai scritto:
> > >Here's the symptoms... when booting from CD the CD boots regulary, then
> > > the "searching for Kernel" part comes in, the whirl starts spinning a=
nd
> > > 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.
> >
> > 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...).
>
> Yes, you are right, it's a USB CD-Rom I mistakenly tought it was SCSI.
>
> Anyhow I got behind the CD Rom problem, now I'm trying to figure out how =
to
> be able to use the keyboard when Sysinstall starts... :-(

Try doing this from a loader prompt:

set hint.atkbdc.0.disabled=3D"1"

(Disabling the keyboard controller).  This helped me get FreeBSD 6 installe=
d=20
on a USB-only Compaq Tablet PC (TC1000).

JN



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