FreeBSD on IBM BladeCenter?

[Roman Kurakin]

Have you tried FreeBSD 6.Current?
Also try to boot in safe mode.

Best regards,
                        Roman Kurakin

nahthan subramanian:

>Hi there,
> 
>  Any success stories out there of getting FreeBSD running on IBM BladeCenter hardware?
>It's not officially supported.  It's designed to run Linux/*doze.
> 
>Here's a document of my attempts:
> 
>---------------------------
> 
>Hardware Information
>general: http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/bladecenter/
>  chassis: http://tinyurl.com/4gcbw
>  blade: http://tinyurl.com/6js9m
>HS20 blade machine type: 8843
>HS20 blade model number: 11U
>Chassis model number: 8677-3XU
>Chassis machine type: 8843
>Chassis model number: 11U
>basic blade config:
>Dual Intel Xeon 3.0Ghz
>  hyper threading and EM64T support
>4096MB memory
>----------------
>FreeBSD Installation media tried:
>tried with freebsd 5.3 i386 from floppy & CD
>tried with freebsd 4.ii i386 from floppy & CD
>--
>tried with BIOS 1.2 on blade.
>tried with BIOS 1.0 on blade.
>--
>tried with an extrenal USB keyboard connected, and without.
>--
>tried with hyperthreading disabled in BIOS.
>tried with CPU cache enabled/disabled in BIOS.
>tried with CPU write back cache enabled/disabled in BIOS.
>tried with CPU prefetch queue enabled/disabled in BIOS.
>tried with CPU Execute Disable bit enabled/disabled in BIOS.
>--
>tried with ACPI enabled/disabled from the installation prompt.
> 
>nothing.
> 
>Here are the crashes and error messages:
>-------
>FreeBSD 5.3 boot from CD/floppy crash/panic:
> 
>atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB UDMA 100 controller> port 0x376,0x170-0x177,0x3f6,0x1f0-0x1f7 at drvice 31.1 on pci0
>
>fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
>fault virtual address   = 0x5
>fault code              = supervisor read, page not present
>instruction pointer     = 0x8:0xc06200d0
>stack pointer           = 0x10:0xc1021914
>frame pointer           = 0x10:0xc1021914
>code segment            = base 0x0, limit 0xfffff, type 0x1b
>                        = DPL 0, pres 1, def32 1, gran 1
>processor eflags        = interrupt enabled, resume, IPOL=0
>current process         = 0 (swapper)
>trap number             = 12
>panic: page fault
>uptime: 1s
>shutting down ACPI
>stray IRQ 11
>Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key on the console to abort
>Rebooting...
>Keyboard reset did not work, attempting CPU shutdown
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>FreeBSD 5.2.1 booting from CD, hangs on boot:
> 
>acpi0: <IBM   SERBLADE> on motherboard
>pcibios: BIOS version 2.10
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi_bus_number: can't get _ADR
>acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
>Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 1000
>(...hangs here forever... machine completely locks up...)
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>FreeBSD 4.11, booting from CD:
> 
>Uncompressing ... done
>BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
>Console: internal video/keyboard
>BIOS drive C: is disk0
>BIOS 629/3275513kB available memory
>FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
>(root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Jan 21 15:42:07 GMT 2005)
>Can't work out which disk we're booting from.
>Guessed BIOS device 0x0 not found by probes, defaulting to disk0:
>Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>Booting [kernel]...
>can't load 'kernel'
>can't load 'kernel.old'
>Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
>ok
>-------------
>FreeBSD 4.11, booting from floppy:
>Uncompressing ... done
>BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
>Console: internal video/keyboard
>BIOS drive C: is disk0
>BIOS 629/3275513kB available memory
>FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
>(root at perseus.cse.buffalo.edu, Fri Jan 21 15:42:07 GMT 2005)
>/kernel text=0x289d91 data=0x30170+0x32d04 zf_read: fill error
>elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed
>can't load module '/kernel': input/output error
>-
>Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
>booting [kernel]...
>/kernel text=0x289d91 data=0x30170+0x32d04 zf_read: fill error
>elf_loadexec: archsw.readin failed
>can't load 'kernel'
>can't load 'kernel.old'
>Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
>ok
>----------------------------
>
>I can't think of much else to try for now.  Any clues?  Thanks.
> 
>-Nate
>
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