@hoba:
Here's everything for this server: http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/product.do?template=/product.do?template=%2Fproductpage%2Flandingpages%2FproductPageLandingPage.vm&sitestyle=ibm&brandind=8&familyind=50276&machineind=0&modelind=0&partnumberind=0&subcategoryind=0&doctypeind=9&doccategoryind=0&operatingsystemind=49977&validate=true
My one has 1,2 GB, 1x1,4 GHz PIII-S (512kb cache, second cpu socket not used). 2x 18GB SCSI RAID1. Additional to the 2 fxp onboard nics I have a 4port switchcard that is realtek based in it. The only thing that I had to do to make the live-cd boot completely is to disable dma for the atapi cdrom and disable the fdd in bios or it would halt somewhere on bootup (see http://wiki.pfsense.com/wikka.php?wakka=BootOptions for how to disable the dma mode).
wow that is very helpful! I really appreciate your input and dedication to the community!
I will certaintly give that a try sometime this week.
Yes random it was also halting at the drive detection screen, but sometimes it went through? Also though one of my cards wasnt being detected though on the PCI bus. I had 2 onboard + 2 realteks and only one realtek got picked up.
I will do a bios update and try those settings and maybe report back this weekend.
Again thanks!