Tom Samplonius wrote:
Axel,
Hi, I was reading your post in regards to installing FreeBSD on the
BladeCenter that you made to freebsd-stable. I've also been trying
installing FreeBSD on the BladeCenter. During my installs, it hangs
during the SCSI disk probes (Waiting for SCSI disks to settle). That
should only take 5 seconds, but it sits there for a long time. I have
some questions:
1. Disabling acpi. What happens for you if acpi is not disabled? I
never tried this, and I'm not sure if this fixes anything or not.
What did it do for you?
2. Keyboard. Have you tried BETA4? I think the new kbdmux stuff will
mean that the keyboard does not need to be disabled.
3. ispfw. I tried both with and without the firmware. I didn't make
any difference. It would still hang. What kind of storage are you
installing onto? I'm working with an IBM DS400 (aka T600).
If these are the same blades as the Intel SBX82 blades, then the code
that drains the keyboard interface at boot time will cause the system to
hang if the ps/2 keyboard (atkbdc?) isn't disabled. Devon H. O'Dell
just sent me a list of his PRs yesterday (via the freebsd-amd64 list)
that resolve this problem and several others:
I've implemented a fix for this utilizing ACPI reboots. Please
apply kern/94939 and tell me if shutdown(8) with -r or
reboot(8) works for you. My suspicion is that it will.
Also, you may be interested in kern/94822, as FreeBSD won't
hang on start-up attaching atkbd(4). If you're working on
Intel SBX82 blades, specifically, kern/94833 and bin/94815 may
also be interesting to you.
Maybe these would be helpful for you, also.
Guy
--
Guy Helmer, Ph.D.
Principal System Architect
Palisade Systems, Inc.
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