From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 5 21:43:21 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB5916A402 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:43:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: from corpmail.itlegion.ru (corpmail.itlegion.ru [84.21.226.211]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1D9F913C467 for ; Mon, 5 Mar 2007 21:43:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from matrix@itlegion.ru) Received: (qmail 82966 invoked from network); 6 Mar 2007 00:15:15 +0300 Received: from unknown (HELO Artem) (192.168.0.12) by 84.21.226.211 with SMTP; 6 Mar 2007 00:15:15 +0300 X-AntiVirus: Checked by Dr.Web [version: 4.33, engine: 4.33.5.10110, virus records: 179994, updated: 5.03.2007] Message-ID: <000b01c75f6b$594c23d0$0c00a8c0@Artem> From: "Artem Kuchin" To: References: <20070227205351.GA72597@ravenloft.kiev.ua><20070305035945.GA71660@xor.obsecurity.org><20070305132350.GB57253@comp.chem.msu.su><200703051314.29902@aldan><20070305191714.GF57253@comp.chem.msu.su> <20070305193022.GM10453@deviant.kiev.zoral.com.ua> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2007 00:15:04 +0300 Organization: IT Legion MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="koi8-r"; reply-type=original Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.3028 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3028 Cc: Subject: Boot prompt for Intel AMT X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2007 21:43:21 -0000 Hello! I hope some people will understand what i am talking about, because the technology, i think, is not very popular, but can come VERY handy. Intel AMT Serial over LAN (SOL, why is it called 'over LAN' if it is really 'OVER IP'?) allows to boot into BIOS of a remote machine and even, as seen in their demo, can be used to control MS DOS prompt. However, i tried it and did not see any boot prompt over SOL connection. As i understand it does not use bios for input/output and therefore data is not sent/received over SOL connection. Thisis a pitty because of boot prompt would work over SOL then remote source upgrade would be much plainless and less risky than now. For example, i could just book old kernel if something goes wrong. Is there a way to make boot prompt work over SOL? The othe question, is there such technology for Supermicro mainboards? -- Regards, Artem