FreeBSD on IBM blade servers

[Rainer Duffner]

Arun Raman wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Had anyone successfully installed FreeBSD (any version) on a IBM blade server?
>  
>


I would love to run it on our LS 20 BladeCenter blades (Dual Core, Dual
Opteron).
But we don't have local disks, only SAN.
And FreeBSD totally lacks multipathing and failover-support for the
integrated Qlogic card (or just about any FC-card).

So, this is one more place where I can say "Goodbye" to FreeBSD and
"Hello" to RHEL.


I found an old posting from Pavel J. Dawidek, claiming to have written a
complete MP-solution (GEOM_ROME):
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-geom/2004-January/000064.html
But it seemed to be "closed source" back then - I wonder what the status
is nowadays.




cheers,
Rainer