On 8 Mar 2010, at 13:06, Rainer M. Canavan wrote: > ... > I'm not sure about CD ISOs, but hard drive or floppy images work for > me ...
Oh, that's great. It's easy to make a hard-drive image, although the 256meg size restriction could be a pain. But surely a hard-drive image would use GRUB or similar. Is this appropriate? > as long as the DRAC is not broken - mine probably is because I can't > currently format or attach it and it does not ... Yes, indeed. My experience has been similar. We had a problem with the SD card supplied by Dell. It was shown as not fitted in the SD card slot - this was slightly intermittent, and it reappeared a couple of times, but after replacing it with a 4gig SanDisk the card has stayed consistently usable. This is a bit of a pain, as 512meg size virtual partitions are only permitted on Dell's own-branded SD cards. The supplied SD card looks quite cheap & nasty (although, to be fair, don't they all?), the system shows this problem out of the box and the first thing support does is ask us to replace the card. :/ > appear in the boot menu > or as a USB block device in an OS. Should is appear as a block device in the o/s? In this case it should be easy to follow the instructions I posted in my last message, creating a bootable USB key image from the System Rescue CD. In searching for "diskboot.img", Red Hat / Fedora is / are the first distros which are mentioned. But it seems they consider it obsolete - I can find Fedora 8 / 2006 prepared diskboot.img images [1] but otherwise it seems to have been replaced by a different method. [2] I've kinda got hints a couple of times that the iDRAC6's VFlash should appear to the system as a USB flash memory drive, but this is by no means made clear. >> 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. ... > > It's far from clear and the Dell's support was unable to even tell > me what VFlash can be used for, even when pointed at the relevant > pages > in the DRAC6 manual. Yeah, I have one of their Indian support guys very confused with my request for clarification on this matter. . He's clearly never used this himself, and may not have even been trained on it. He seems to be delayed by attempts to contact his tier 2 mentor, and he suggests using the option in the viewer window (Tools Menu -> Virtual CD -> Add Image -> Show local ISO from local desktop/laptop and attach). This is obviously not the same thing >> 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). > > I'd recommend TinyCore Linux. > > http://www.tinycorelinux.com/ > > It's small enough to fit on the 16MB Virtual Flash of the > DRAC5s with enough space left to install a few extra packages. > It does not include any of the the MegaRAID drivers. so you'll > have to reconfigure and recompile the kernel, or you could > just use my image: > > http://canavan.de/TinyCore2.8.xfs.img > > If DRAC6s are your only concern, you could use the "small version > of GRML, which should be around 100MB: > > http://grml.org/download/ Many thanks indeed! I will take a look at these this evening. Stroller. [1] <http://www.filewatcher.com/m/diskboot.img.12582912.0.0.html> [2] <http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f9preview/en_US/sn-Live.html#sn-USB-Booting > _______________________________________________ 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
