Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:18:44 +0100 From: Marco Re <m.re@inet.it> To: Blaz Zupan <blaz@si.FreeBSD.org>, Andy McCarty <mccarw@lom.med.va.gov> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Blade Message-ID: <200311181818.44471.m.re@inet.it> In-Reply-To: <20031118175358.B63624@titanic.medinet.si> References: <20031118005748.GA13811@lom.med.va.gov> <20031118175358.B63624@titanic.medinet.si>
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On Tuesday 18 November 2003 17:56, Blaz Zupan wrote: > > FreeBSD 5.x (or 4.x) on an IBM HS20 Blade? > > > > I would surely be interested in pointers if > > possible. > > I tried but failed miserably. There were two problems: > > 1. It is impossible to boot from CD. Neither 4.8 nor 5.1 boot from CD. > Booting from floppy works but is of course cumbersome. I've made the installation using the pxe network installation http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/pxe/index.html and it worked without problem. > > 2. After boot, keyboard did not work. The problem is that although the > keyboard is actually a USB keyboard, the AT port is still connected so > FreeBSD detects the normal keyboard as well, so the nonexisting AT keyboard > becomes /dev/kbd0 while the real (USB) keyboard becomes /dev/kbd1. This was > a bug in both 4.8 and 5.1 and it is supposedly fixed in 4.9. I'll have the > possibility to test 4.9 on the blade soon now and I'll be able to test it. I've solved DISABLING every kind of usb from the kernel. but making so I lost the floppy and the cdrom. :-( I've not tried with 4.9 but only with 4.8 R > > Both the fiberchannel and ethernet seem to be detected during bootup, but I > don't know if they actually work... the ethernet worked fine. Ciao Marco
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