Date: Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:18:32 +0200 From: Miroslav Lachman <000.fbsd@quip.cz> To: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, Andrew Snow <andrew@modulus.org> Subject: Re: console access Message-ID: <484C1468.6020403@quip.cz> In-Reply-To: <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com> References: <3cc535c80806080217m413995dej4037fd2aac22ef4b@mail.gmail.com> <484BAC1C.8080300@modulus.org> <20080608121234.GC50122@eos.sc1.parodius.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?484C1468.6020403>