Hi there, Has anyone had any luck with anything like the subject, please?
I'm a bit frustrated to find that the obvious thing of being able to upload & boot from a standard .iso CD image appears not to be supported. Clearly there must be good reasons for this, but it seems a shame that more effort wasn't made. I can see from postings on the internet that I was not alone in assuming that the VFlash should behave this way. Resorting to the manual - something I've never had to do in 4 years with a DRAC4 - I find references to Red Hat diskboot.img files [1] but I really not clear what that is. I'm getting narked because something that should be simple & straight-forward clearly isn't. The best thing I can think to try next is to make a USB memory stick based on System Rescue CD [2] here at home, then `dd if=/dev/sd$USB- STICK of=try-this-sucker.img` and uploading that for an attempt. This makes the restriction on 256meg virtual keys look a bit puny, because where am I going to find a USB key small enough to create the image? And, heck, it prolly won't work, anyway. I believe (one this firmware has finished downloading & I've reflashed the iDRAC) that I should be able to use .iso CD images stored on my laptop by using the Virtual Media drop-down in the Console viewer, but that's a bit lame because it means the whole process is slowed by the network connection between me & the server. I'm clearly not alone in having thought "a 1gig SD card? I can fling a bunch of Knoppix CDs on there any boot from them any time I have an o/s emergency". Has anyone got any good solutions to this, please? Is there anywhere I can find .img files that actually work with the iDRAC6? (Yes, I do have the "Enterprise" model, BTW). Stroller. [1] http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/idrac13mono/en/ug/html/racugc2d.htm#wp1077860 http://tinyurl.com/yam9n4u [2] http://www.sysresccd.org/Sysresccd-manual-en_How_to_install_SystemRescueCd_on_an_USB-stick http://tinyurl.com/yzpbkt _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
