From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 8 13:46:29 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 E62831065687 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:46:29 +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 A07798FC14 for ; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 13:46:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from andrew@modulus.org) Received: by email.octopus.com.au (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 5D8DE17D98; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:46:28 +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 5C70C171DC; Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:46:24 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <484BE2AE.9060604@modulus.org> Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 23:46:22 +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> <484BD615.2020702@modulus.org> <20080608133641.GB61781@eos.sc1.parodius.com> In-Reply-To: <20080608133641.GB61781@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 13:46:30 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > Okay, so then your original comment ("The same thing happened when > trying to use a USB CDROM drive, so I suspect USB boot support is at > fault somehow") might actually not be caused by FreeBSD at all? The > reason I say that: OK, good point. I didn't try any other OS, I just tried FreeBSD 6 and 7 off a USB CDROM drive, virtual media CDROM, and virtual media floppy, both of which use USB emulation. I assumed that if I tried, say, a Windows CD, it would just work because that's usually Supermicro's target market. > What Supermicro box is having USB booting problems? Its a rather new X7DWT motherboard (Intel 5400 chipset, Xeon CPU) Good luck with getting your USB drives back :-) - Andrew