In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation IBM
BladeCenter. For those that don't know, it's a 7U rackmount box with 14 slots
that can take one PC each.
http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/blades/
All the PC's share a single CD, floppy and the builtin KVM. CD, floppy and the
Hello Blaz,
On Dec 07, Blaz Zupan wrote:
1. No FreeBSD version boots from CD on this box. Tried with 4.x and 5.x.
Both complain that they can't find their own boot device and don't know how to
load the kernel. There are some signs that booting from any USB connected
CDROM on any hardware is
I'm curious as to the output of lsdev from the loader. Though
I doubt I can help you.
I'll mail it to you tomorrow when I'm at the office.
You could stick a kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd2 in rc.local or
something similiar. Or you could try (warning, wild guess) the
following in the
On Dec 07, Blaz Zupan wrote:
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You could stick a kbdcontrol -k /dev/kbd2 in rc.local or
something similiar. Or you could try (warning, wild guess) the
following in the boot loader
set hint.sc.2.at=isa
set hint.sc.2.flags=0x200
Sure, I'm using the
On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote:
The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have
multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking.
ugh, you know what I mean.
--
We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see
that we Canadians are
Blaz == Blaz Zupan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Blaz In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation
Blaz IBM BladeCenter. For those that don't know, it's a 7U rackmount
Blaz box with 14 slots that can take one PC each.
Blaz http://www.ibm.com/servers/eserver/blades/
While
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, David Gilbert wrote:
DG While keyboard support on FreeBSD should be fixed, you might want to
DG take a look at ironsystems (ironsystem.com) offerings. They have
DG several different bladeservers from 8 to 16 nodes per chassy. In
DG particular, they have a 16-in-2-U (WOW).
On Sun, 7 Dec 2003, Mathew Kanner wrote:
On Dec 07, Mathew Kanner wrote:
The way I see it, FreeBSD needs serious hacking to have
multiple concurrent keyboards support without serious hacking.
ugh, you know what I mean.
With mouse support, we have a layer of indirection with
At 6:13 PM +0100 12/7/03, Blaz Zupan wrote:
In the last couple of days I've been fighting with a evaluation
IBM BladeCenter. [...]
My company would really like to deploy the Bladecenter as it
is otherwise a very solid solution for our problem. But 99.9%
of our servers are FreeBSD and the above
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