chris1's issue stemmed from needing some handholding on the ssh console and how to boot off an iso. Maybe some links to further details/faq/etc from the portal site might be in order. describing the f12 option in bios, how to redirect ssh, and how to interact with conserver are topics that could be linked to.
toddf: most of those things are already in the Knowledge Base, but I get what you're sayin'
up_the_irons: still around by any chance?
last 5 orders that used the coupon code SLICEHOST all wanted to pay annually and they all declined.  STRANGE....
i'm thinking fraud
wonder if PSN hack has anything to do with it
that'd be kind of amusing.
up_the_irons: might be worth contacting the bank over, then.
jpalmer: no time, <sigh>
jpalmer: you get a chance to do those freebsd 8.2 templates?  if u can't do it, lmk, b/c i will need to do them myself this week
up_the_irons: I haven't had time.  I'll try to get to them today,  but if not..  I probably won't be able to do them in the near future
jpalmer: ok, just lmk so i know how to proceed
tnx
no worries,  if I don't get to them,  I'll shoot you an email.
roger, tnx
up_the_irons: you were still trying to work out how to get the boot menus to appear on new qemu-kvm/seabios?
G: its an open invitation to provide a bios that doesn't have mpbios isuses for kvm and also provides F12 cdrom access during boot
toddf: yeah, you can get KVM to provide the boot menu again
toddf: up_the_irons w/ qemu-kvm 0.13.0 (Fedora 14) & Seabios 0.6.0 you can append ",menu=on" to the -boot option (i.e.: -boot order=cn,menu=on)
toddf: what exactly is the mpbios issue, I've tried recent FreeBSD & OpenBSD on my local machines, without issues to
*too
G: the mpbios 'issue' is that with OpenBSD anyway the bios provides a bogus mpbios table that should only be provided with more than one cpu
G: this is with the bios running on the vps's arp provides today
G: can you provide a screenshot of what happens with 'menu=on' ?
toddf: it's just the standard F12 after PXE init
hold on, let me grab one w/ my pfsense VM
ohhh actually, still a minor issue, seabios doesn't output that prompt to a console
toddf: http://dev.nigelj.com/Screenshot.png via VNC though
I don't think F12 appears on ARP's current consoles either /me checks
toddf: menu=on basically restores the status quo
toddf: as for OpenBSD, whats the best way to reproduce the issue? iirc I've got a OpenBSD 4.9 iso hanging around