Hi ! Did you really succeed with "bootcd" ? We never managed to be able to boot from the created CD successfully..."missing /dev/console"...kernel panic...
How did you start a standard Debian installer from a CD created with "bootcd" ? Or do you also have local disks in your blades ? Does IBM support your "vanilly 2.4.31 kernel + patches" in the case of HW/SW problems ? Did you use the downloadable (IBM certified) driver sources from qlogic website (intended for Redhat/SuSe) for building your kernel ? Did you ever try to use a standard Debian 2.6.8-2 kernel with your Broadcom Ethernet adapters in the blade center ? Whenever we tried that we had to reset the ethernet adapter of the blade center afterwards... Thanks a lot. Alfred