Dear All, anyone has experience installing FreeBSD-5.3 on to IBM Blade HS40 ? I have difficulty when installed FreeBSD-5.3 on to IBM Blade server HS40, the keyboard doesnt want to work when arrive on installation menu. from IBM blade HS40 documentation: "Although the keyboard that is attached to the BladeCenter is a PS/2 style keyboard, communication with it is through the Universal Serial Bus (USB)"
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thanks it works well. FreeBSD-5.3-RELEASE can be installed well on to IBM Blade HS40. But I face another problem. If I reboot the HS40 I have entered onto qlogic bios. if I dont enter onto qlogic bios device then the HS40 will hang on probing isp devices after reboot.
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(31 Oct 2004, updated on 5 Nov 2004) For FreeBSD/i386 and FreeBSD/amd64, when installing FreeBSD 5.3 using an USB keyboard the keyboard will stop working once the kernel boots, because a PS/2 keyboard is always considered to be attached. As a workaround, select ``Escape to loader prompt'' in the boot loader menu and enter the following lines at the prompt:
set hint.atkbd.0.flags=3D"0x1" boot
Note that if you use the boot floppies, this is set by default.
After the installation, add the following line to /boot/loader.conf:
hint.atkbd.0.flags=3D"0x1"
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