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
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