booting Freebsd 4.10
Paul Dlug
paul at nerdlabs.com
Tue Feb 22 17:17:02 PST 2005
On Feb 22, 2005, at 5:59 PM, Maya Haridasan wrote:
> I'm setting up a testbed in a cluster of blade servers and I've been
> trying to boot freebsd 4.10 on the nodes. They hang immediately after
> BTX loader version 1.0. I believe this might have something to do with
> the serial console (the nodes don't have a serial console). Would
> anyone have any clues about what this could be? Else, would you have
> any suggestions as to how I could try to "debug" the problem - any
> files that I might try to modify to test if the boot process goes
> further?
If it's an IBM/Intel blade server I may be having the same problem you
are:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/
011944.html
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2005-February/
012161.html
I haven't tried 4.10, 5.2.1 works for me if you do a PXE boot with
scripted sysinstall. 5.3 I cannot get to go anywhere.
--Paul
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