install FreeBSD on IBM BladeCenter (HS20)

Pavel Baleshenko pavlik at mcc.elektra.ru
Mon Sep 5 04:06:01 PDT 2005


Hello
I'm trying to install FreeBSD on IBM BladeCenter HS20. But all my attempts are  unsuccessful. 
I think the problem is each blade uses all devices (CD, FDD, keyboard, mouse) through USB.
I began my attempts from 5.4
It stops on scanning atkbd0. I tried to choose loading kernel with USB keyboard in the boot menu. But this time I got the kernel panic after scanning atapci0:

fatal trap 12: page fault while in kernel mode
fault virtual address   = 0x5
fault code              = supervisor read, page not present

Then I tried 4.11. If I boot from CD, the loader doesn't find CD and kernel isn't found  accordingly. If I boot from floppy, the kernel is found successfully but the scanning of the devices is stopping on atkbd0 again.

I still hope to find a solution for this problem. 
Thanks in advance for any help.


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