FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

Axel S. Gruner asg at suedfactoring.com
Mon Feb 27 02:34:04 PST 2006


Hi,

i tried to install FreeBSD 5.4 and 6.0 (x86 and amd64) on an IBM Blade Center 
(Intel based). 
USB keyboard works, ACPI does not (but i do not care about that one), but the 
bootprocess takes about 5-10 minutes. 
We hava a Qlogic 2312 which is supported by the "isp" driver. But, well, not 
really supported? After detecting the QLogic, it takes several minutes to 
boot into sysinstall. And, after that, sysinstall does not find any disk. So 
installation ends here. 
We do not have a SCSI HD in the Blades, just in the SAN. So booting from there 
is a "must have". 

So, anyone out there running FreeBSD (or NetBSD/OpenBSD) on an Intel Blade 
Center? 

Thnaks in advance.

asg


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