I have been trying, unsuccessfull so far, to get some systems to respect
the chassis bootdev request.
I'm running Ubuntu 6.06.1 and, in this case, I'm talking to a Dell 2950
with a DRAC5 installed. Most operations work, but not the bootdev feature.
It may be that this particular setup does not use the system boot options mailbox, since this is an optional IPMI feature that relies more on the BIOS than anything. The implementation from IPMI side is relatively easy, making a BIOS that bothers to use the boot mailbox is another story--something that is more likely to be missing from a system that uses an expansion card for BMC since it is not present on every box.
Even on the system that I have seen this feature work, the "make persistent" option never functioned due to the complications related to boot device selection in the BIOS--something I'm sure could be worked out with enough effort.
None of my current systems support this feature at the moment, so it might be worth asking Dell if this feature is supported on the 2950+DRAC5 combination.
Duncan recently put in "use_progress" in ipmi_chassis.c. So I tried with
and without the additional messages it generates. There was no change in
behavior.
See attached diffs for addition of bootdev option parsing and flags.
Thanks for the patch, there are some useful options here. (and some odd single-purpose ones like EFIBoot)
Running "ipmitool -U user -P xxxx -H drac5 -I lan chassis bootdev pxe
options=persistent,verbose=yes" did not make the options stick and did not
result in a PXE boot attempt.
The only obvious failing command in the traces is that this BMC does not appear to support the "commit-write" state, though it does accept setting that flag to "set-in-progress" and "set-complete". This is not unusal since rollback is not often implemented in the BMC.
-duncan
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