I've been browsing through the debian archive and came upon the problem where sarge was installed successfully on a HS20 IBM xseries.
The problem i'm facing right now is after installing sarge, whenever i use the KVM to switch the internal CDROM/FLOPPY (which are USB) to other HS20 blade servers, the kernel is crashing giving the following error message: Feb 25 11:23:20 localhost kernel: usb 1-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Feb 25 11:23:20 localhost kernel: usb 1-1.1: USB disconnect, address 4 Feb 25 11:23:20 localhost kernel: usb 1-1.3: USB disconnect, address 5 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: scsi: Device offlined - not ready after error recovery: host 2 channel 0 id 0 lun 0 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: sr 2:0:0:0: Illegal state transition cancel->offline Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: Badness in scsi_device_set_state at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1643 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5571328/6417782] scsi_device_set_state+0xc9/0x120 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5560597/6417782] scsi_eh_offline_sdevs+0x6e/0x90 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562248/6417782] scsi_unjam_host+0xe1/0x220 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562879/6417782] scsi_error_handler+0x138/0x200 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562567/6417782] scsi_error_handler+0x0/0x200 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/16] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: Badness in kobject_get at lib/kobject.c:433 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [kobject_get+80/96] kobject_get +0x50/0x60 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [get_device+24/32] get_device +0x18/0x20 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5568892/6417782] scsi_request_fn+0x25/0x4d0 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [blk_insert_request+217/256] blk_insert_request+0xd9/0x100 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5564082/6417782] scsi_queue_insert+0x8b/0xe0 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5561881/6417782] scsi_eh_flush_done_q+0x72/0x100 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562196/6417782] scsi_unjam_host+0xad/0x220 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [default_wake_function+0/32] default_wake_function+0x0/0x20 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562879/6417782] scsi_error_handler+0x138/0x200 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [__crc_utf8_wctomb+5562567/6417782] scsi_error_handler+0x0/0x200 [scsi_mod] Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: [kernel_thread_helper+5/16] kernel_thread_helper+0x5/0x10 Feb 25 11:23:25 localhost kernel: Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 00200200 ================================ I'm using Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP that comes with debian sarge. help is appreciated, especially those who have experience with Debian on HS20. TC -- FireBlade <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]