Back in the 1.5 days I remember having kernel panics if the KVM connected 
USB keyboard was switched away from the machine.  I seem to recall it was 
related to the console always needing to be present and having it on a USB 
keyboard that could disappear was a problem.  My solution was to plug in a 
PS/2 keyboard and leave it sitting back behind the rack.

Any chance the Blade's console (KVM switch setting) is changing during boot?

At 11:34 PM 10/17/2005 +0400, Bruno Carnazzi wrote:
>   Hi all,
>
>I've tried to install NetBSD on an IBM BladeCenter, on a HS20 Blade.
>The boot CD hangs on kernel loading at different stage, randomly. Will
>this hardware be supported ? It has an integrated KVM switch (for
>usb/floppy/keyboard/screen) that doesn't seems very "standard". Maybe
>the mess comes from here :)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Bruno.



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