Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-06-09 Thread Steven Hartland
For the record this appears to have been fixed in 8.1-BETA so we can now successfully use the fixit CD mounted from an iso under the IPMI tool on our supermicro machines. It even fixes the issue where previously you had to select device rescan for it to see the usb cdrom after boot :) -

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-06-09 Thread Alexander Motin
Steven Hartland wrote: For the record this appears to have been fixed in 8.1-BETA so we can now successfully use the fixit CD mounted from an iso under the IPMI tool on our supermicro machines. It even fixes the issue where previously you had to select device rescan for it to see the usb

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-06-09 Thread Steve Polyack
On 12/08/09 12:41, Jeff Blank wrote: Hi, I'm having a little trouble using the virtual media function of Dell's PowerEdge R-series (R710 in this case) iDRAC6 under FreeBSD (7.1, 8.0). This is presented as /dev/cd0, a USB/SCSI device, I guess. This is in the dmesg buffer when I boot up the

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-06-09 Thread Steven Hartland
Try 8.1 to see if that helps, did here :) - Original Message - From: Steve Polyack kor...@comcast.net We're having some similar issues with our older PowerEdge 1850s (DRAC4). Things were alright on 6.3-RELEASE, but now there is a large hangup when trying to install 8.0-RELEASE: We

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-02-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Tuesday 08 December 2009 17:41:45 Jeff Blank wrote: Hi, I'm having a little trouble using the virtual media function of Dell's PowerEdge R-series (R710 in this case) iDRAC6 under FreeBSD (7.1, 8.0). This is presented as /dev/cd0, a USB/SCSI device, I guess. This is in the dmesg buffer

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-02-18 Thread Gary Palmer
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 09:26:41PM +, Scott Mitchell wrote: So it appears to work if I force the starting sector to be zero. I see the same result with an RHEL5 DVD image: (504) ~ $ sudo umount /mnt (505) ~ $ sudo mount_cd9660 -v /dev/cd0 /mnt using starting sector 512 mount_cd9660:

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2010-02-18 Thread Scott Mitchell
On Thursday 18 February 2010 21:54:16 Gary Palmer wrote: Hi, I'm no expert at this code, but it might be interesting to see the results of cdcontrol -v info The code in mount_cd9660 in 7.x reads the CD/DVD table of contents to figure out where the data segment starts. The only thing I

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-12 Thread Randi Harper
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 7:01 PM, Stuart Barkley stua...@4gh.net wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 20:07 -, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the a... I have iLO card in HP ML110 G5 and Virtual Media doesn't work at all. Virtual device is not

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-10 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Stuart Barkley wrote: On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 20:07 -, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the [...] So I am disapointed by this hyped feature ;( Does anyone here find this stuff useful? We have a vendor pushing Virtual Media on us and

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-10 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Stuart Barkley stua...@4gh.net Does anyone here find this stuff useful? Yes its is very useful for remote installs etc but it doest have its limitations when it doesnt play nice with the OS. This e.mail

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-09 Thread Stuart Barkley
On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 at 20:07 -, Miroslav Lachman wrote: Virtual Media / Virtual Console from all vendors is paint in the a... I have iLO card in HP ML110 G5 and Virtual Media doesn't work at all. Virtual device is not detected by FreeBSD nor in BIOS, so I can't even boot from it.

Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Jeff Blank
Hi, I'm having a little trouble using the virtual media function of Dell's PowerEdge R-series (R710 in this case) iDRAC6 under FreeBSD (7.1, 8.0). This is presented as /dev/cd0, a USB/SCSI device, I guess. This is in the dmesg buffer when I boot up the existing 7.1 installation with the virtual

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: umass0: Avocent USB Composite Device-1, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 on uhub6 [...] cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: iDRAC Virtual CD 0323 Removable CD-ROM SCSI-0 device cd0: 40.000MB/s transfers cd0: cd present

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Jeff Blank
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:52:19AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument You want /dev/cd0c, not /dev/cd0. There is no /dev/cd0c or any other, just /dev/cd0. Jeff

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Jeremy Chadwick
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 02:05:10PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:52:19AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: # mount -t cd9660 /dev/cd0 /mnt mount_cd9660: /dev/cd0: Invalid argument You want /dev/cd0c, not

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 08/12/2009 19:52 Jeremy Chadwick said the following: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:41:45PM -0500, Jeff Blank wrote: umass0: Avocent USB Composite Device-1, class 0/0, rev 2.00/0.00, addr 2 on uhub6 [...] cd0 at umass-sim0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 cd0: iDRAC Virtual CD 0323 Removable CD-ROM

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Jeff Blank
On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:54:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: What? Are you still using 4.X? Or using some other OS? I'm using 7.1 (installed to disk) and 8.0 (DVD ISO/virtual media). Jeff ___ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Jeff Blank wrote: On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 09:54:41PM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: What? Are you still using 4.X? Or using some other OS? I'm using 7.1 (installed to disk) and 8.0 (DVD ISO/virtual media). I can confirm this behavior on 7-STABLE amd64 GENERIC (built Sun Dec 6 23:21:17 CET

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Steven Hartland
I can confirm that's the same on 8.0-RELEASE DVD, you can boot from it but you can't start fixit as it simply doesnt appear to find the cd. This was done on a supermicro with ipmi, which I believe uses the same or similar controller under a different name. Regards Steve - Original

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Karl Denninger
The ipmi implementation is limited to CD-sized media on the Supermicro ipKVM implementations. Try the CD boot media ISO. Steven Hartland wrote: I can confirm that's the same on 8.0-RELEASE DVD, you can boot from it but you can't start fixit as it simply doesnt appear to find the cd. This was

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Miroslav Lachman
Karl Denninger wrote: The ipmi implementation is limited to CD-sized media on the Supermicro ipKVM implementations. Try the CD boot media ISO. Steven Hartland wrote: I can confirm that's the same on 8.0-RELEASE DVD, you can boot from it but you can't start fixit as it simply doesnt appear to

Re: Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

2009-12-08 Thread Steven Hartland
- Original Message - From: Karl Denninger k...@denninger.net The ipmi implementation is limited to CD-sized media on the Supermicro ipKVM implementations. Try the CD boot media ISO. If thats the case why can it happily boot from it? The issue only seemed to occur here when you