Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:52:37 +1000 From: Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: console access Message-ID: <484BD615.2020702@modulus.org> In-Reply-To: <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <3cc535c80806080217m413995dej4037fd2aac22ef4b@mail.gmail.com> <484BAC1C.8080300@modulus.org> <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Supermicro IPMI cards are notoriously buggy. A few of the system > engineers at Yahoo! who I know continually bitch and moan about how > horrible they are. My advice: do not install the IPMI card which is > causing your problems. The remote KVM control feature was an important requirement so the card is staying. Luckily it uses the Intel gigabit NIC which seems to work well in 7-STABLE, I have no complaints so far. Every feature works well except virtual media. > Booting FreeBSD off of USB devices is known to be broken; see "BTX, > boot2, and loader" section at the below URL: > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues Thats interesting - I regularly use USB sticks to boot freebsd as its easier for installation on cluster machines/routers that lack CDROM drives. I've used it on, I think, half a dozen different motherboards/architectures and its worked well on all of them, the Supermicro box was the only broken one. Because virtual media emulates a USB device I'm pretty sure thats why it wasnt working - the USB problem, not a problem with the IPMI card. - Andrew
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