FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade

[fbsd_user]

This question has been asked on this list a few times in the past.
Check the list archives for the thread details.

But what it all boils down to if I remember correctly is this.
IBM is know for doing things to lock their customers into using
only IBM equipment and software.
The Qlogic board that IBM sells with their blade center blades is a
special mfg board just for them. This board has been customized to
only
work on the blade running IBM's version of Unix.

The reported work around is to add a IDE HD and install FreeBSD to
the IDE drive and use the scsi qlogic drives for raid data only.
The other is not to purchase the Qlogic board with your blade and
use some other standard generic scsi board.

There was some talk that disabling the plug--n-play bios option
had some effect also.

If you get it working please post what your solution is so other
readers of this list can find the solution in the archives later.

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Axel S.
Gruner
Sent: Monday, February 27, 2006 5:31 AM
To: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Subject: FreeBSD 5.x or 6.0 on IBM Blade


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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