> On 10 Dec 2014, at 12:00, freebsd-net-requ...@freebsd.org wrote: > > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 11:09:51 +0300 > From: "Alexey V. Panfilov" <lehis2...@mail.ru> > To: Julian Elischer <jul...@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org > Subject: Re: IPMI stops respond if boot in single user mode > Message-ID: <5487ffcf.10...@mail.ru> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r > >> IMI "shares" the NIC, by which I mean, it uses a backdoor in the chip to >> access it. >> After the driver is loaded, the chip gets reset, but not re-enabled >> until networking is enabled, >> so the backdoor is shut but not re-opened. >> In single user mode the first has happenned, but the second has not. >> >> My suggestion is: >> compile the kernel without the driver. >> load the driver from /etc/rc using the following variable in rc.conf. >> >> kld_list (str) A list of kernel modules to load right after the local >> disks are mounted. Loading modules at this point in >> the boot >> process is much faster than doing it via /boot/loader.conf >> for those modules not necessary for mounting local disk. >> >> let me know how it works out! > > Julian, thanks for your reply. I'll remember this trick. > > But I can't check it now - server goes in production.
We had a similar problem with BCE before the drivers were updated. One other solution is to boot to BIOS and disable the onboard network adapter before booting single user. Mel _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
