From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Dec 29 16:41:42 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 8FAEC16A41F for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:41:42 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de (crivens.unixoid.de [81.169.171.191]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B53443D4C for ; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 16:41:41 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from MH@kernel32.de) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223E141BD; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:41:39 +0100 (CET) Received: from crivens.unixoid.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (crivens.unixoid.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 77738-02; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:41:35 +0100 (CET) Received: from [192.168.100.104] (p54BDD037.dip.t-dialin.net [84.189.208.55]) by crivens.unixoid.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 380CE3F7C; Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:41:35 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <43B412BA.2070005@kernel32.de> Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2005 17:45:46 +0100 From: Marian Hettwer User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Macintosh/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrea Brancatelli References: <200512291052.00546.andrea@brancatelli.it> <43B400E6.9040605@ultra-secure.de> <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it> In-Reply-To: <200512291706.41144.andrea@brancatelli.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at unixoid.de 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 16:41:42 -0000 Hi there, Andrea Brancatelli wrote: > Alle 16:29, gioved=EC 29 dicembre 2005, hai scritto: >=20 >=20 >>>Here's the symptoms... when booting from CD the CD boots regulary, the= n >>>the "searching for Kernel" part comes in, the whirl starts spinning an= d >>>everything stop. I mean, it doesn't stop, it keeps spinning and spinni= ng >>>and spinning and spinning, but without doing anything. If I take the C= D >>>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...). >=20 >=20 > Yes, you are right, it's a USB CD-Rom I mistakenly tought it was SCSI. >=20 > Anyhow I got behind the CD Rom problem, now I'm trying to figure out ho= w to be=20 > able to use the keyboard when Sysinstall starts... :-( >=20 You may want to take a look at an automatic installation with PXE and=20 some scripts. There is a paper on how to do that with FreeBSD (We're using FAI and=20 Debian on HS20 Blades): http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/ Perhaps you can try to install the server via PXE. In the end, if you're = lucky to have quite a lot of servers, a PXE based installation would be=20 one way to go :) hth, Marian