From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 16:36:04 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 16EBB16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:36:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC28D43D81 for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:35:56 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from localhost (jn@ns1 [69.55.238.237]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id jBTGZd1f014547; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 08:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 11:35:35 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.3 References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it> In-Reply-To: <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it> X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200512291135.35437.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Andrea Brancatelli 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 16:36:04 -0000 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