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
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