From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 18 09:18:38 2003 Return-Path: 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 B589516A4D0 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:18:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from mid-1.inet.it (mid-1.inet.it [213.92.5.18]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1FEA343F85 for ; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:18:37 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from m.re@inet.it) Received: from lazarea.inet.it [::ffff:213.92.74.33] by mid-1.inet.it via I-SMTP-4.7.1-470 id ::ffff:213.92.74.33+bbEsHhcnh5AC; Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:18:27 +0100 From: Marco Re Organization: I.Net To: Blaz Zupan , Andy McCarty Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 18:18:44 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 References: <20031118005748.GA13811@lom.med.va.gov> <20031118175358.B63624@titanic.medinet.si> In-Reply-To: <20031118175358.B63624@titanic.medinet.si> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200311181818.44471.m.re@inet.it> cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IBM Blade X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: m.re@inet.it List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 17:18:38 -0000 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