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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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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
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are so many of them to choose from."
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