Dell PowerEdge Virtual Media

[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 done on a supermicro with ipmi, which I believe uses the same or
> similar
> controller under a different name.
>
>    Regards
>    Steve
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miroslav Lachman" <000.fbsd at quip.cz>
>
>
>> 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 2009) on Dell R610 with iDRAC 6.
>>
>> System was installed from CD ISO booted on this virtual drive, but
>> now it is not possible to mount anything by /dev/cd0
>
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