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Re: [Freeipmi-users] freeipmi issue on Sun X4200 (ipmi-chassis)
From: |
Al Chu |
Subject: |
Re: [Freeipmi-users] freeipmi issue on Sun X4200 (ipmi-chassis) |
Date: |
Tue, 13 May 2008 13:07:20 -0700 |
Hey Ihara,
I think there was a bug in the flags for the boot-device. Can you
please let me know if this fixes things for you now? It's in the same
CVS location as mentioned previously.
If this and the ipmi-fru thing are fixed, I will release a FreeIPMI
0.6.2.
Thanks,
Al
On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 11:03 +0900, Shuichi Ihara wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> > After you set the boot-device w/ -L, does it show up correctly with -G
> > (--get-boot-flags)? Could you run the ipmi-chassis command with --debug.
> > We can see if the packet dump are looking fine.
>
> I attached dump file(ipmi-chassis-debug.out) when run ipmi-chassis with "-L
> --debug" option.
>
> >
> > I personally haven't tested this b/c I don't have a machine that
> > supports IPMI boot configuration. Are you sure the Sun machine supports
> > IPMI based boot configuration?
>
> Yes, it's implemented and work this feature via ipmitool.
> However, I found strange point when I ran ipmi-cahssis after the ipmitool
> execution.
> Please see below.
>
> # ipmi-chassis -h 10.14.16.23 -p changeme -u root -W "endianseq" -L
> --boot-device=PXE
> # ipmi-chassis -h 10.14.16.23 -p changeme -u root -W "endianseq"
> --get-boot-flags
> BIOS boot type : PC compatible boot
> Lock out reset buttons : Disabled
> Screen blank : Disabled
> Boot device selector : Force PXE
> Lock keyboard : Disabled
> Clear CMOS : Disabled
> Console redirection control : System default
> Lock out sleep button : Disabled
> User password bypass : Disabled
> Lock out reset button : Disabled
> Force progress event traps : Disabled
> Firmware BIOS verbosity level : Default
> Lock out via power button : Disabled
>
> it looks "boot device selector" is set to PXE, but this is different after
> the run ipmitool to
> set to PXE. In this case, the boot device selector is blank below. I also
> attached dump file
> with "--debug" option in this case.
>
> # ipmitool -H 10.14.16.23 -P changeme -U root chassis bootdev pxe
> # ipmi-chassis -h 10.14.16.23 -p changeme -u root -W "endianseq"
> --get-boot-flags
> BIOS boot type : PC compatible boot
> Lock out reset buttons : Disabled
> Screen blank : Disabled
> Boot device selector :
> Lock keyboard : Disabled
> Clear CMOS : Disabled
> Console redirection control : System default
> Lock out sleep button : Disabled
> User password bypass : Disabled
> Lock out reset button : Disabled
> Force progress event traps : Disabled
> Firmware BIOS verbosity level : Default
> Lock out via power button : Disabled
>
> >
> >> 2. can't get MAC address from the FRU information
> >> # ipmi-fru -v -h 192.168.10.3 -u root -p changeme -W "endianseq"
> >> -snip-
> >> FRU Inventory Device ID: 0x0E
> >> FRU Get FRU Inventory Area Failure: bad completion code: request
> >> data/parameter invalid
> >>
> >> FRU Inventory Device ID: 0x0F
> >> FRU Get FRU Inventory Area Failure: bad completion code: request
> >> data/parameter invalid
> >>
> >> FRU Inventory Device ID: 0x10
> >>
> >> FRU Product Manufacturer Name: INTEL
> >> FRU Product Product Name: DUAL
> >> ??K?/?2??/uct Version Type: ?4p?g(?4P?h)?%
> >
> > Just to make sure, are you using the newest FreeIPMI? 0.6.1? Awhiles
> > ago I did fix a corner case in the six-bit-ascii output. This could be
> > related to it.
>
> Yes, I'm using 0.6.1 which is latest version.
>
> >
> >> ?
> >> FRU Unknown BCD Character: 0xC7
> >> FRU Product Info: Remaining Area Cannot Be Parsed
> >
> > It's hard to say based on this. It's possible there are some OEM
> > specific stuff in this FRU output which is why I cannot decode it.
> > Could you send the --debug output?
>
> I did and attached it(filename is ipmi-fru-debug.out)
> And I also attached ipmitool-fru.out which is dump information with "ipmitool
> fru".
>
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al
>
> Thanks for your helps.
>
> -Ihara
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Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory