Re: FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-06 Thread Ivan Voras
Maximillian Dornseif wrote: What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? The posts you saw were m

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-04 Thread David Robillard
> Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? Hello Maximillian, I'm not using it myself, but a friend of mine is running FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE on IBM BladeCenter LS20, AMD Opteron 2.4GHz/800 MHz. He says the big problems are getting the BladeCenter's USB conso

FReeBSD on IBM Blade Servers

2008-04-03 Thread Maximillian Dornseif
What is the status of FreeBSD on the different flavours of the IBM Blade Servers. I found some postings from 2005 statings that there were serious issues. Is this still true? Somebody using FreeBSD & IBM Blade hardware in production? Regards Maximillian Dornseif -- View this messag

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, Try waiting about 30 minutes, there was a nasty timeout problem here when I tried it - you might have the same. Google for my posts on freebsd-stable mailing list. Okay, it really seems it's the "nasty timeout" I am facing (I booted into the "verbose mode" and it's

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: -- Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec lo0: bpf attached rr232x: no controller detecde. md0: Preloaded image 4423680 bytes at 0xc0af6544 probe64:umass-sim1:1:0:0): error 22 probe64:umass-sim1:1:0:0): Unretryable

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-30 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, Ye, by installing the system with the timeout (i.e. just wait it out), then building a kernel without umass at the first opportunity. Still no luck. Today, I tried waiting till the timeout expired, but what happened was, that in the middle of probing, the machine got rebooted. It was th

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-29 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, Try waiting about 30 minutes, there was a nasty timeout problem here when I tried it - you might have the same. Google for my posts on freebsd-stable mailing list. Okay, it really seems it's the "nasty timeout" I am facing (I booted into the "verbose mode" and it's the controller which

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-28 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, Nejc Škoberne wrote: Hello, today I tried to migrate a FreeBSD 6.1 installation from an ordinary PC machine to an IBM Blade HS21 server. The server is a brand new machine with two Dual Core Xeon 5130 processors, two 72GB SAS drives. i installed FreeBSD 6.1-Beta2 on an IBM HS20 Blade. Take

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-27 Thread Ivan Voras
Nejc Škoberne wrote: > When I try to boot FreeBSD (either from USB disk with the installation > I am trying to move, either from FreeBSD 6.2 disc 1 installation CD-ROM) > the kernel doesn't load in full. It finds the USB disk, the SAS disks, > but then stops here: > > Timecounters tick every 1.00

FreeBSD on IBM Blade HS21

2007-03-27 Thread Nejc Škoberne
Hello, today I tried to migrate a FreeBSD 6.1 installation from an ordinary PC machine to an IBM Blade HS21 server. The server is a brand new machine with two Dual Core Xeon 5130 processors, two 72GB SAS drives. When I try to boot FreeBSD (either from USB disk with the installation I am trying

Re: IBM Blade

2006-05-27 Thread Jorn Argelo
Steele Burgess wrote: When is Freebsd going to support the blades. Doesn't make any sense. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

Re: IBM Blade

2006-05-26 Thread Iantcho Vassilev
On 5/26/06, Steele Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When is Freebsd going to support the blades. Doesn't make any sense. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send

IBM Blade

2006-05-26 Thread Steele Burgess
When is Freebsd going to support the blades. Doesn't make any sense. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

2006-02-27 Thread fbsd_user
an IBM Blade Center (Intel based). USB keyboard works, ACPI does not (but i do not care about that one), but the bootprocess takes about 5-10 minutes. We hava a Qlogic 2312 which is supported by the "isp" driver. But, well, not really supported? After detecting the QLogic, it takes sever

RE: FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

2006-02-27 Thread fbsd_user
d the solution in the archives later. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Axel S. Gruner Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:31 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade Hi, i tried to install FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0

FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

2006-02-27 Thread Axel S. Gruner
Hi, i tried to install FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 (x86 and amd64) on an IBM Blade Center (Intel based). USB keyboard works, ACPI does not (but i do not care about that one), but the bootprocess takes about 5-10 minutes. We hava a Qlogic 2312 which is supported by the "isp" driver. But,

RE: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-29 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
hi no, I haven't been able to use any version of FreeBSD. I did try to boot the IBM Blade on all of the available versions on ftp.freebsd.org ,, but with no success. I got some info from the internet that FreeBSD version 4.1 would work, but I tried that and it didn't work. when boo

RE: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-29 Thread fbsd_user
Fosburgh Sent: Thursday, December 29, 2005 11:16 AM To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gestur A. Grjetarsson Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:32, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > Hi > > I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN >

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-29 Thread Jonathan Fosburgh
On Wednesday 28 December 2005 07:32, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > Hi > > I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN > > now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience on > various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as i

RE: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-28 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
tarsson Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center? I tried to boot a 6.0 Installation CD on a HS20 Blade. I always get "can't load 'kernel'" from the cdloader. If I type "lsdev" it shows me no "cd devices"; a "ls

Re: FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-28 Thread Thomas Linton
drive stays dark. The BladeCenter is using a USB-CDROM and I think this is actually the problem of booting a Blade from a freeBSD CD. Did you try a Network-Based installation? How far did you come with your installation? On Wed, Dec 28, 2005 at 01:32:44PM -, Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: > H

FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

2005-12-28 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I have IBM Blade with Qlogic 2312 adapters using DS400 SAN now I have learned that after over 10 years of good FreeBSD experience on various sorts of hardware, I can't use FreeBSD anymore as it does'nt work on IBM Blade. I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this p

Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-07 Thread Bill Schmitt (SW)
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: after alot of time spent in this problem, I still have no solution to this and no help yet, is there nobody using IBM Blade and FreeBSD? I've used FreeBSD since 1994 and never had a problem like this. but, I tried to boot from Gentoo Linux, and it de

Re: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-07 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
after alot of time spent in this problem, I still have no solution to this and no help yet, is there nobody using IBM Blade and FreeBSD? I've used FreeBSD since 1994 and never had a problem like this. but, I tried to boot from Gentoo Linux, and it detects everything fine wit

FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-06 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
hi I have an update to my problem with booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade H40 I set the execution throttle to 256 from 255 and set Hard id to 5 from 125 by doing this, I get the ISP driver working and no delay when the driver boots => but when the system comes into sysinstall menu, I

problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

2005-12-06 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I have this new IBM Blade Center, which I would like to run FreeBSD on with boot from SAN, when trying to boot I get problems and can't see any disks from the SAN. the configuration I have is a IBM Blade Center H40 DS400 diskbox with dual controller but only single connection Qlogic

Re: problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Norberto Meijome
Gestur A. Grjetarsson wrote: Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message "can't load 'kernel'" [...] can anyone point me out... it seems that when I try typ

problem booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade

2005-12-01 Thread Gestur A. Grjetarsson
Hi I'm having a problem installing freebsd on an ibm blade the problem I face is that during boot, it always stops in OK prompt with the message "can't load 'kernel'" CD Loder 1.2 Building the boot loader arguments Looking up /BOOT/LOADER... Found Rel

FreeBSD on IBM blade center

2005-06-27 Thread Axel . Gruner
Hi, is FreeBSD 5.x running on IBM blade-center? If so, does anyone have a link about information running FreeBSD on a IBM blade-center? Thanks in advance. asg ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo