From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 12:52:46 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 155931065682 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:52:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: from email.octopus.com.au (host-122-100-2-232.octopus.com.au [122.100.2.232]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D0268FC0C for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 12:52:45 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1002) id DD72E17DB1; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:52:43 +1000 (EST) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.2.3 (2007-08-08) on email.octopus.com.au X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.4 required=10.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED autolearn=failed version=3.2.3 Received: from [10.20.30.101] (60.218.233.220.exetel.com.au [220.233.218.60]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: admin@email.octopus.com.au) by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98A2F171A6; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 22:52:39 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <484BD615.2020702@modulus.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 22:52:37 +1000 From: Andrew Snow User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-stable@freebsd.org 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=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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 12:52:46 -0000 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