From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 12:11:26 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49D691065675 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:11:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5472C8FC12 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:11:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from inchoate.gsoft.com.au (ppp121-45-32-123.lns10.adl2.internode.on.net [121.45.32.123]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id m58CBLWA059383 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:41:22 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 21:41:09 +0930 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <3cc535c80806080217m413995dej4037fd2aac22ef4b@mail.gmail.com> <484BAC1C.8080300@modulus.org> In-Reply-To: <484BAC1C.8080300@modulus.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart11337904.sLivlKfHIn"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200806082141.16653.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> X-Spam-Score: -2.212 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Andrew Snow Subject: Re: console access 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: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:11:26 -0000 --nextPart11337904.sLivlKfHIn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Andrew Snow wrote: > Andy Kosela wrote: > > Then you can even > > remotely mount iso images from your laptop at home directly on the > > server (very handy sometimes). > > Incidentally, when I tried to use a Supermicro IPMI card for > networked remote media, FreeBSD boot loader crashed the machine > (video went haywire and it didnt boot). > > The same thing happened when trying to use a USB CDROM drive, so I > suspect USB boot support is at fault somehow. Try a snapshot made after this commit.. http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/boot/i386/btx/btx/btx.S?rev= =3D1.46;content-type=3Dtext%2Fx-cvsweb-markup (it was MFC'd to RELENG_6 & others on the 18th of March) =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart11337904.sLivlKfHIn Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.8 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBIS8xk5ZPcIHs/zowRAgoeAJ4qIip8wBUjh4mNVlGk9PczhizoTgCfQba4 FSCJTY435i2fX8UCd+YQy9A= =LZ4K -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart11337904.sLivlKfHIn--