Hi, after all, i can say, HEUREKA, FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2 is installed on my IBM Blade Center. I used the AMD64 ISO. I did the installation via Blade Center ManagementModul "Remote Control" and booted the CD from my local workstation. booting from CD, in bootmenu choose "6" and type: unset acpi_load load ispfw load isp set hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" boot Normally FreeBSD should boot into sysinstall and keyboard should work. Also, i got a problems to find a HD, but after loading "ispfw" and "isp" (well, i think "ispfw" should be enough, this is not loaded in the GENERIC Kernel) i see all my LUNs in the SAN. Installation from CD did not work, due to input/outpu errors of /dev/cd0. Sysinstall was also unable to mount /dev/cd0 to /dist. But not a problem at all, i configured the network and did the installation via FTP. Works smoothly. So, after rebooting, systems will hang at "atkbd" and/or the QLOGIC Interface. So, using the boot prompt and unset acpi, load ispfw and set atkbd (see above). /boot/loader.conf: # turn off acpi # see also /boot/device.hints acpi_load="NO" # QLOGIC FIBRE ispfw_load="YES" /etc/device.hints (add these lines at the end of the file): # disable ACPI #see also /boot/loader.conf hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" hint.atkbd.0.disabled="1" So, reboot the system and just let it boot normally. It should work now. Here is my dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2006 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 6.1-BETA2 #0: Thu Feb 16 22:41:50 UTC 2006 root@bloom.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 3.20GHz (3200.13-MHz K8-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0xf43 Stepping = 3 Features=0xbfebfbff<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,DTS,ACPI,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2,SS,HTT,TM,PBE> Features2=0x641d<SSE3,RSVD2,MON,DS_CPL,CNTX-ID,CX16,<b14>> AMD Features=0x20000800<SYSCALL,LM> Hyperthreading: 2 logical CPUs real memory = 1073471488 (1023 MB) avail memory = 1024393216 (976 MB) cpu0 on motherboard pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0 pci0: <unknown> at device 0.1 (no driver attached) pcib1: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 3.0 on pci0 pci4: <PCI bus> on pcib1 pcib2: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.0 on pci4 pci6: <PCI bus> on pcib2 isp0: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x5000-0x50ff mem 0xdafff000-0xdaffffff irq 7 at device 1.0 on pci6 isp0: [GIANT-LOCKED] isp0: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16 isp0: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero isp1: <Qlogic ISP 2312 PCI FC-AL Adapter> port 0x5100-0x51ff mem 0xdaffe000-0xdaffefff irq 5 at device 1.1 on pci6 isp1: [GIANT-LOCKED] isp1: bad execution throttle of 0- using 16 isp1: bad hard address 125- resetting to zero pcib3: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 0.2 on pci4 pci5: <PCI bus> on pcib3 bge0: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 0xdcff0000-0xdcffffff irq 7 at device 1.0 on pci5 bge0: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3c:a7:18 bge1: <Broadcom BCM5704S Dual Gigabit Ethernet, ASIC rev. 0x2100> mem 0xdcfe0000-0xdcfeffff irq 5 at device 1.1 on pci5 bge1: Ethernet address: 00:14:5e:3c:a7:19 pci0: <base peripheral> at device 8.0 (no driver attached) pcib4: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 28.0 on pci0 pci2: <PCI bus> on pcib4 mpt0: <LSILogic 1030 Ultra4 Adapter> port 0x4000-0x40ff mem 0xdeff0000-0xdeffffff,0xdefe0000-0xdefeffff irq 10 at device 1.0 on pci2 mpt0: [GIANT-LOCKED] mpt0: MPI Version=1.2.15.0 mpt0: Unhandled Event Notify Frame. Event 0xa. mpt0: Capabilities: ( RAID-1E RAID-1 SAFTE ) mpt0: 0 Active Volumes (1 Max) mpt0: 0 Hidden Drive Members (6 Max) uhci0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0x2200-0x221f irq 10 at device 29.0 on pci0 uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb0: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci0 usb0: USB revision 1.0 uhub0: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered uhci1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> port 0x2600-0x261f irq 5 at device 29.1 on pci0 uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED] usb1: <UHCI (generic) USB controller> on uhci1 usb1: USB revision 1.0 uhub1: Intel UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr 1 uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered pci0: <base peripheral> at device 29.4 (no driver attached) pci0: <base peripheral, interrupt controller> at device 29.5 (no driver attached) pcib5: <PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 pci1: <PCI bus> on pcib5 pci1: <display, VGA> at device 1.0 (no driver attached) isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 atapci0: <Intel 6300ESB UDMA100 controller> port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6,0x170-0x177,0x376 at device 31.1 on pci0 ata0: <ATA channel 0> on atapci0 ata1: <ATA channel 1> on atapci0 pci0: <serial bus, SMBus> at device 31.3 (no driver attached) orm0: <ISA Option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc8fff on isa0 atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 psm0: unable to get the current command byte value. ppc0: cannot reserve I/O port range sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0 sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300> sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio1: port may not be enabled vga0: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0 uhub2: Cypress Semiconductor 4 Port Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 2 uhub2: 4 ports with 4 removable, self powered umass0: TEAC TEAC FD-05PUB, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 3 umass1: In-System Design USB Storage Adapter, rev 1.10/1.00, addr 4 uhub3: Cypress Semiconductor 4 Port Hub, class 9/0, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 5 uhub3: 4 ports with 4 removable, bus powered ukbd0: IBM PPC I/F, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 6, iclass 3/1 kbd0 at ukbd0 ums0: IBM PPC I/F, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 6, iclass 3/1 ums0: X report 0x0002 not supported device_attach: ums0 attach returned 6 ukbd1: IBM HIDK/M, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 7, iclass 3/1 kbd1 at ukbd1 ums0: IBM HIDK/M, rev 1.10/0.01, addr 7, iclass 3/1 ums0: 3 buttons and Z dir. Timecounter "TSC" frequency 3200130672 Hz quality 800 Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec module_register_init: MOD_LOAD (amr_linux, 0xffffffff805ebcc0, 0) error 6 Waiting 5 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: <LSI INF-01-00 0612> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da0: 200.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2610C) da1 at isp0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: <LSI INF-01-00 0612> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da1: 200.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2610C) da2 at isp1 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da2: <LSI INF-01-00 0612> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da2: 200.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2610C) da3 at isp1 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da3: <LSI INF-01-00 0612> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-3 device da3: 200.000MB/s transfers, Tagged Queueing Enabled da3: 20480MB (41943040 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 2610C) da4 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da4: <TEAC FD-05PUB 3200> Removable Direct Access SCSI-0 device da4: 1.000MB/s transfers da4: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present cd0 at umass-sim1 bus 1 target 0 lun 0 cd0: <HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8082N 0L03> Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 1.000MB/s transfers cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da4 -> 6 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da4 -> 6 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): READ CAPACITY. CDB: 25 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): CAM Status: SCSI Status Error (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): SCSI Status: Check Condition (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): NOT READY asc:3a,0 (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Medium not present (da4:umass-sim0:0:0:0): Unretryable error Opened disk da4 -> 6 Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a HTH Users having problems to install FreeBSD on IBM Blades. Axel dont read that stupid signature --> ######################################################################## # DISCLAIMER # # # # Der Inhalt dieser E-Mail ist vertraulich. Falls Sie nicht der # # angegebene Empfaenger sind oder falls diese Email irrtuemlich an Sie # # addressiert wurde, verstaendigen Sie bitte den Absender sofort und # # loeschen Sie die Email umgehend. Das unerlaubte Kopieren sowie die # # unbefugte Uebermittlung sind nicht gestattet. # # Die Sicherheit von Uebermittlungen per Email kann nicht garantiert # # werden. 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