From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 17:18:17 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 D76391065679; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:18:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from elsa.codelab.cz (elsa.codelab.cz [91.103.162.4]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 82BE28FC2E; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 17:18:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from 000.fbsd@quip.cz) Received: from localhost (localhost.codelab.cz [127.0.0.1]) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTP id C764E19E023; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:18:15 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.2] (r5bb235.net.upc.cz [86.49.61.235]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by elsa.codelab.cz (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 9D40319E019; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 19:18:13 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <484C1468.6020403@quip.cz> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:18:32 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.12) Gecko/20050915 X-Accept-Language: cz, cs, en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick References: <3cc535c80806080217m413995dej4037fd2aac22ef4b@mail.gmail.com> <484BAC1C.8080300@modulus.org> <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, 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 17:18:17 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 07:53:32PM +1000, Andrew Snow wrote: [...] > Additionally, the IPMI card which "piggyback" on top of one of the > onboard Ethernet ports are going to force the use of something called > ASF (at least in Broadcom land it's called that), where the NIC then > has two physical MAC addresses -- yes, you read that right! The OS has > to have support for that feature for it to work properly, and your local > LAN will probably freak out, ARP-wise. It would be nice to have it better documented in manpage for bge (I know hw.bge.allow_asf is mentioned, but the words does not make it clear to me). It took me a long time before I discovered that I need to add hw.bge.allow_asf="1" in to loader.conf. Since that my eLOM on Sun Fire X2100 M2 servers works nicely without any lockups (mentioned in manpage) >>The same thing happened when trying to use a USB CDROM drive, so I suspect >>USB boot support is at fault somehow. > > > 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 I am using USB flashdisks with FreeBSD installer with GRUB on HW where older BTX failed. Miroslav Lachman