FreeBSD on IBM Blade Center?

[Thomas Linton]

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" brings "open '/' failed:.." and the LED of the cdrom-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 -0000, 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 it does'nt work on IBM Blade.
> I have read alot on this problem trying to solve this problem and done alot of testing and hacking but without any progress.
>  
> so I have two questions:
>  
> is FreeBSD going to support IBM Blade?
>  
> if it is going to support and work on IBM Blade, can you give me an estimation on when it will be ready to run on IBM Blade?
>  
> kveðja
> Gestur
> Iceland
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