Le samedi 28 mai 2011 à 14:59 +0300, P. Christeas a écrit : > On Saturday 28 May 2011, Michael Scherer wrote: > > Le samedi 28 mai 2011 à 11:55 +0200, Michael Scherer a écrit : > > > > I am looking to find someone to fix everything ( ie, start valstar ), > > > > and will send a email later when stuff are back. No ETA at the moment. > > > > Servers are back. According to perenoel, they just lacked the proper > > option to start after a power loss, so we will need to check this next > > time we go see them ( either we forgot to set that, or there is a > > problem with bios such as a empty battery ). > > Good question, aren't we able to read the bios registers through any piece of > software (on Linux, of course) ?
We can, we just do not know the semantic of every bytes and registers :) Being able to manage the bios from a running system would be a compelling use case for a open source replacement, IMHO, but that doesn't seems to be a wide spread idea. > With ipmi, I thought this would be possible. I don't know if your servers are > ipmi or acpi. IIRC, only alamut has a management card, and IPMI. None of the others servers in Marseille have it. -- Michael Scherer
