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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