FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40

[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 get no disks, it seems that the system doesn't see any drives or lun's ,,, what is causing this??
 
please help me with this anyone!
 
 
kveðja/ best regards
Gestur
 
 
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From: Gestur A. Grjetarsson 
Sent: 6. desember 2005 10:57
To: 'freebsd-bugs at freebsd.org'
Subject: FW: problems booting FreeBSD 6.0 on IBM Blade Center H40


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 2312 dual FC controller 
 
I have problem with the ISP driver: 
 
I tried to boot from the FreeBSD 6.0-Release cd but it always fails with the error can't load kernel and I can't see the cdrom to boot from after the boot loader has started.
 
So I downloaded the boot floppies and tried to boot the blade using the floppies but it won't show me any drivers after a long waiting period while the isp driver hangs for awile in the boot process.
 
I compiled a custom kernel and made new boot kern floppies to boot from, and now I'm stuck with this error in the boot process:
 
isp0: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16
isp0: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero
 
 
 
 
after reading all i've gathered on this subject and googl'd on it, I put ispfw_load="YES" line in the loader.conf ,, but without result
 
 
 
Can anyone point me out on how to solve this problem, I really need this to work !?!?
please help!
 
kveðja/regards
Gestur