Date: Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:18:46 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org>, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> Subject: Re: console access Message-ID: <200806082318.47656.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <484BD615.2020702@modulus.org> References: <3cc535c80806080217m413995dej4037fd2aac22ef4b@mail.gmail.com> <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> <484BD615.2020702@modulus.org>
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--nextPart1414166.iciXDZ9TNj Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sun, 8 Jun 2008, Andrew Snow wrote: > 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. Lucky you, every system I've tried it on bar my Dell i8600 laptop failed=20 to boot :) With the btx.S r1.46 commit I was much more successful though. =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 --nextPart1414166.iciXDZ9TNj 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) iD8DBQBIS+M/5ZPcIHs/zowRAvjSAKCFYPw/KEx48xUPrA+PUJVgr4ClbgCeJhaG TOdEEV90StZYa671t1gL6WQ= =ugCP -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1414166.iciXDZ9TNj--
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