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nathaniis there a protocol that carries IPv4 packets over an IPv6 network, kind of like the reverse of a he.net ipv6 tunnel? [00:43]
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dneat least on *bsd the "gif" tunnel interface supports both [03:04]
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brycec[m]nathani: yes, a couple in fact. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/4in6 [07:16]
BryceBotError in Wikipedia's response: [07:16]
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mhoranhttp://www.internetsociety.org/deploy360/resources/case-study-t-mobile-us-goes-ipv6-only-using-464xlat/ -- T-Mobile (and now other carriers in the US) use 464XLAT on IPv6 only phones. [07:39]
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acf_the supermicro ipmi kvm is terrible
it's a java application that uses JNI to run native code
except the native code crashes on systems with too new of a libc
I've been trying various configurations of Ubuntu for the last hour trying to get it working..
[12:50]
mercutiothat seems odd, i use archlinux and can access supermicro ipmi
you could try using IPMIView as well
[12:54]
plettIPMIView is the right answer, if you need GUI keyboard+mouse or mounting of remote ISOs. If all you need is a serial console to get to the BIOS menus or drive your PXE booting installer, ipmitool is handy [13:00]
acf_yeah, I've been trying to use ipmiview [13:06]
mercutioipmitool is great if that'sall you need [13:06]
acf_ipmiview itself starts, but "iKVM" (the kvm part) crashes [13:07]
mercutioOpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea 2.6.7) (Arch Linux build 7.u111_2.6.7-1-x86_64)
i'm using that java
[13:07]
acf_I think the java part starts fine
but it tries to load iKVM64.so
and the native code seems to explode on new systems
[13:09]
mercutioit seems stupid to have java with native code [13:12]
acf_yeah. I think the native code is tightvnc or something [13:12]
mercutioyeah the java is ick. do you think you can get away with serial console? [13:12]
acf_I don't really want to chance it :/ [13:13]
mercutioyou can do bios, linux etc
the only real issue can be boot loaders that want to do fancy graphical screens
[13:13]
acf_will most live linux disks give me a console over serial automatically? [13:13]
mercutioyou can force linux to disable that stuff
some will
if they keep using the bios, and the bios has serial console enabled
sometimes you have to press escape or such
yeah it isn't as clean as i'd like it to be
[13:14]
acf_hmm.. maybe I'll give that a shot then [13:16]
mercutioipmitool -I lanplus -H <ip> -U <username> -P <password> sol activate
should do it
[13:17]
acf_oh cool
that's not even some supermicro software
[13:17]
mercutioyeh it's a standard
there's also power sub command
and sensor
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dneacf_: I've had some success with this noVNC branch/fork and SM's iKVM: https://github.com/kelleyk/noVNC/tree/bmc-support [13:59]
mercutiooh, interesting [14:01]
dnediscussions: https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/pull/408 and https://github.com/novnc/noVNC/pull/614 [14:05]
acf_woah
that looks awesome
I looked for a bit, but couldn't find anything like that
[14:14]
dneit certainly beats the java junk (if you can get it to work with your board)
support matrix: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wVrwOpebTn43ncEBY9dfn1SMVM205NEMwy1W8q_kR3s/edit?usp=sharing
(might not be up-to-date)
[14:15]
acf_I'm pretty sure it uses iKVM / VNC at least [14:19]
mercutioATEN only not AMI seems to be it
supermicro are so inconsistent
[14:20]
mkb"the only real issue can be boot loaders that want to do fancy graphical screens" [14:20]
dneSM's recent firmware has native html5 support too [14:20]
mkbI do not understand why supposed server oses do fancy graphics [14:21]
mercutiodmidecode | grep -i product
if you want to check model
mkb: openbsd doesn't
openbsd works perfectly with serial alone
[14:21]
mkbyes openbsd is the best operating system
unfortunately we don't use it at work :(
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JC_Dentonupdating openbsd is a PITA, imo
especially en masse
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acf_dne: do you just launch with ./utils/launch.sh --vnc [host]:5900 ? [14:55]
dneacf_: yes, I believe so (it's been a while)
and enter USERNAME:PASSWORD as password
(maybe they've improved that now?)
[14:57]
acf_hmm
I'm getting "Unsupported server"
:/
[15:02]
dneoh :( [15:03]
mercutiodo you know what motherboard it is? [15:03]
acf_it's an ARP box [15:04]
mercutioit mostly looks to be the AMI unsupportable, although the ATEN sometimes have issues
does it have OS on it?
[15:04]
acf_I imagine I can find out somehow through ipmi or the web interface?
yea
oh right..
[15:04]
mercutiodmidecode | grep -i product [15:04]
dnedmidecode -s baseboard-product-name [15:04]
mercutioheh dne is more specific [15:04]
dne(gleaned from the source) [15:05]
acf_X9SCD [15:05]
mercutiothat works for me too
that's not on the list of working or not working
[15:05]
acf_> https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wVrwOpebTn43ncEBY9dfn1SMVM205NEMwy1W8q_kR3s/edit#gid=0
there are some "X9SC..." in there
[15:05]
mercutiobut X9SRD has some issues
true
it should be ATEN at least
i suspect it's fixable
[15:05]
dneacf_: sorry for getting your hopes up [15:06]
acf_I'm probably just not using this novnc thing right [15:06]
dnehm I can't find the string "unsupported server" in the source
(or I don't know how to search properly on github)
aah "Sorry, forked repositories are not currently searchable"
yes it does exist in the source
[15:08]
acf_oops
forgot to check out the "bmc-support" branch
[15:15]
mercutiosweet
i'm just trying it too
where do you set username?
[15:16]
acf_I think you type "username:password" into the password field
mine is stuck on "Connecting..." now
[15:18]
mercutiowell it says connecting
but i can't see anything happening
unsupported server
but i think it's just having trouble talking to it
[15:18]
acf_"Failed to connect to server" here
I can telnet to [ip]:5900
[15:20]
mercutiomaybe you have to initiate remote connection first
oh so can i
[15:20]
acf_> RFB 003.008
so the TCP connection does go through
[15:20]
mercutiothere is nothign useful under ast2100 settings
video quality and subsampling mode
but does suggest i have the right branch
maybe password is done diff
[15:21]
acf_there is a little popup at the top of the page for a second when you click "Connect"
that says something about "user:password"
so that's where I got that rom
[15:22]
mercutioyou are right
i missed that bit hah
[15:22]
acf_oh, here are some instructions https://basraayman.com/2016/12/03/using-a-novnc-branch-to-connect-to-your-supermicro-ikvm/ [15:23]
mercutioi saw the left bit
weird, when i click connect it seems to only talk on port 80 not 5900
and that maybe having the other web interafce open
[15:23]
acf_what does? [15:25]
mercutioi'm tcpdumping on tun09
tun0
[15:25]
acf_I see traffic to 5900 on tun0 [15:26]
mercutiowhen i enter my password it's like no communication seems to happen
after password?
i see it before password
[15:26]
acf_ohhh [15:26]
mercutioit just says "Connecting..." normally
except it failed before
haha "HTTP: GET /cgi/ipmi.cgi?SENSOR_INFO_FOR_SYS_HEALTH.XML"
tcpdump is auto checking content it seems
[15:26]
acf_oh well
my computer crashed while I was trying to install Ubuntu 14.04 in a VM..
so I guess I should go start that again
typically should I file a ticket if I need an iso image attached that isn't available in the library?
[15:28]
mercutioyeah
if you want it added to library
[15:29]
acf_I mean, I just need to use it for maintainance
but I think it has to be in the library for that
[15:30]
mercutioyeah
you can attach your own iso
but to get it added to list yeah
[15:30]
acf_the supermicro http interface indicates that the iso is loaded from a Windows share
I guess I could run a Windows share locally and try to use the iso over the VPN
but that sounds like a major PITA
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mercutioyou can't
it's a restricted network
no internet
[15:33]
acf_yeah, but I'm connected to it over VPN, yeah?
to access the interface?
[15:34]
mercutiojust send an email with link to ISO you want added [15:34]
acf_so I could use a share on my VPN IP? [15:34]
mercutiooh that may work
but the last time i tried doing something like that it was extremely slow
[15:34]
acf_yeah, I imagine so.. [15:34]
mercutioit may be ok if you have say 20msec ping [15:34]
acf_well.. I'll try to get this stupid supermicro software working first and then worry about all that [15:35]
mercutiobut with 60 msec ping it'd probably be past the point of irritation a lot :) [15:35]
acf_it's a live linux cdf
so I think it will load the whole image into RAM?
[15:35]
mercutioi use arch linux as live cd [15:35]
acf_I basically just need access to the lvm2 tools [15:35]
mercutiothere's otehr live ones in there i think though [15:36]
acf_and preferrably cfdisk
hmm.. ok. maybe I'll try one
[15:36]
mercutioi use gdisk, arch linux would have lvm2, at lesat
and it has zsh :)
[15:36]
acf_I did a dry run of this operation in a VM earlier with the Debian live CD
so I was going to try to just use the same one
[15:36]
mercutiohmm i haven't checked out debian in a while
ubuntu's installer is brain dead
[15:37]
acf_I run Debian testing on lots of stuff
yeah Ubuntu has some issues
[15:37]
mercutioi did before shifting to ubuntu
now i do arch for personal stuff ubuntu for other stuff
but installing ubuntu with arch is nicer than usign their installer imo
[15:37]
gizmoguymercutio: any ideas on how to define multiple smokeping probes with different arguments? [15:38]
mercutiocreate more smokeping probes? [15:39]
gizmoguybut the name of the probe is the module it loads right? [15:39]
mercutioi don'tk now if you can change arguments per target
nope
the binary =
isn't it?
oh hmm
i dunno now :)
[15:39]
gizmoguynah the name tells it which module (e.g. Smokeping::probes::FPing) to load
it's really annoying me
I'll try define it per host
[15:40]
mercutioYeah I think you're right
hangon i think you can overload
urlformat = http://%host%/
i've got lines like that
per host i'm tracking
[15:40]
gizmoguycan you do an if statement though [15:41]
mercutioi doubt it [15:41]
gizmoguybasically I have an expensive server to query with ICMP [15:41]
mercutiobut i use that for filename [15:41]
gizmoguyand I want to do it 5 times instead of 20 [15:41]
mercutiourlformat = http://%host%/ at = http://%host%/200k
of what to curlk
you should be able to change it
you may have to delete the old rrd though
or change it
[15:41]
gizmoguyyeah but I want everything else to be queried 20 times [15:42]
mercutiotry just setting pings = 5
under the ++
[15:42]
gizmoguyon the Target? [15:42]
mercutioand host etc
yeh
the web interface will show how many it is
but you may have to remove the old rrd
[15:42]
gizmoguyERROR: /etc/smokeping/config.d/Targets, line 43: unknown variable 'pings'
:(
[15:43]
mercutiooh [15:43]
gizmoguymaybe this isn't actually possible... [15:43]
mercutioit should be [15:43]
gizmoguyOh!
A probe can have subsections
so:
+ FPing
++ FPingGentle
pings = 5
[15:43]
mercutioyeah
i did say ++
did that help?
i didn't even realise you didn't know you could do that
[15:44]
gizmoguyI didn't know a Probe could have a subsection [15:44]
mercutiomine have all been using that forever [15:44]
gizmoguyI know Targets can [15:44]
mercutioi dunno why you can't just put pings = 5 in the target [15:45]
gizmoguyit doesn't recognise it [15:45]
mercutiobraindead [15:45]
gizmoguyWhich is odd, because that's how the DNS probe and Curl probes work [15:46]
mercutioyeah
it's only curl i've changed
by expensive do you mean it's on 3g or such?
[15:46]
gizmoguyNah. There's a piece of slow software that handles ICMP [15:47]
mercutioahh
i want to know why this novnc doesn't work
[15:47]
gizmoguymmm? [15:49]
mercutiothe novnc that works to supermicro servers apparently [15:49]
gizmoguycan you update the IPMI on the supermicro to a version that does HTML? [15:49]
mercutiobut after putting in a password (any passwrod) it doesn't seem to communicate further [15:49]
acf_I wonder if the branch is just broken right now [15:49]
gizmoguyOr is that what you've done [15:49]
mercutioand just stays "connecting..."
acf: yaeh that's what i'm thinking
[15:49]
acf_I tried reverting to a couple of commits ago [15:50]
mercutiogizmoguy: not on the old gear [15:50]
acf_but the history is probably complicated [15:50]
mercutiogizmoguy: you can use vnc to connect direclty using this git version of novnc in a separate branch [15:50]
gizmoguyhaha
sounds lovely
makes me appreciate my Dell machines even more
[15:50]
mercutioit's nicer than java
it works with dell too
idrac7 and idrac8
[15:50]
gizmoguyOn idrac8 you get VNC over WebSockets [15:51]
mercutiowell that's what novnc is basically [15:51]
gizmoguyand the DRAC web interface comes with an HTML5 vnc viewer bundled [15:51]
acf_that's basically what this is [15:51]
gizmoguyit possibly is novnc
i haven't picked it apart
but it comes stock which is nice
[15:51]
acf_gave up on the ubuntu installer.. trying debian jessie now [15:51]
mercutiosupermicro are doing html on recent stuff too with recent firmware [15:52]
gizmoguyyeah some of my supermicros do HTML5
It's not as pretty as the dell stuff
but works
[15:52]
acf_oh nice. the Arch install iso has all of the tools I need
mercutio: do you know if it does serial console automatically?
[15:56]
mercutionah it doesn't
you need to tell it console=ttyS0,115200
you can do another console=tty0 too
[15:56]
acf_hmm [15:57]
mercutioalso if you want to ssh into it
which you probably do
[15:57]
acf_so I'll get the bootloader over the serial console? [15:57]
mercutioset your ip, passwd, then systemctl start sshd
i have actually been wondering if it's possible to fix the arch linux cd to automatically go to serial
i think with more recent archlinux it was better, i think i'm going to have to test it again
hangon
it's hp rather than supermicro, but i'll boot my home server and test
[15:57]
acf_testing in a VM now [16:00]
mercutiohp are cool in that you can ssh into them and tell them what cd to boot
oh that's the other way of going duh
[16:00]
acf_it at least shows the bootloader over serial [16:01]
mercutio<tab><space>console=ttyS0,115200<enter>
should work even if you can't get out of the gui crap
ie typing that blind in serial console
[16:05]
acf_yeah, it seems to work
okay.. well I think I'll try this then
[16:07]
mercutiocool [16:07]
acf_thanks for all the help [16:07]
mercutioall good
i know how annoying java can be :)
java works for me but it still does annoying things, liek come up on my screen that's turned off
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acf__having trouble getting it to boot from cdrom..
dammit
well.. serial console worked in the VM
> ISOLINUX 6.03 6.03* ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
but the actual menu is only displayed on the monitor
(I can see it in the "remote console preview" image over http)
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mercutiomm type what i said above
@mercutio ? <tab><space>console=ttyS0,115200<enter>
oh it may be two enters
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acf__yeah. I tried that [16:24]
mercutiothat's at the menu
it takes a while
because the cd is slow on virtual media
even on lan
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acf__I'm refreshing the preview image
it doesn't show that it's doing anything
[16:24]
mercutiodoes it show in menu?
it usually clears the screen
[16:24]
acf__it shows the menu [16:25]
mercutiohas some grey text saying some loading thing
oh
maybe it needs another enter?
[16:25]
acf__hmm
if I power cycle, and press only enter a bunch of times
should it at least try to boot something?
[16:25]
mercutioyeah if you press enter from arch it'll boot 64 bit [16:25]
acf__this is strange because in the VM, it displayed the menu over serial [16:27]
mercutiowas it the same archlinux version?
i think it improved
[16:27]
acf__yeah. it was acutally a passthrough of the virtual CD [16:27]
mercutiooh
i wonder if there's a way to force that menu to behave
without remaking the iso
[16:27]
acf__well my jessie vm just finished installing [16:29]
JC_Dentonhmm
a friend is looking for a Windows-friendly VPS host.
[16:33]
mercutioi wonder if serial port isn't ttyS0 [16:35]
acf__I checked that it is
stupid iKVM won't work under jessie either..
[16:36]
mercutiodid it used to work?
JC_Denton: and no-one knows :)
[16:37]
acf__I know it worked under some Debian at some point [16:38]
mercutioi think lots of people using windows tend to use vmware [16:38]
acf__with some hacking [16:38]
mercutiobut kvm does work with windows [16:38]
JC_Dentonyeah [16:38]
mercutiothere are some hoops [16:38]
JC_Dentonhe's in a pickle because he wants to do Office (not 365 or the web versions) and he needs the Windows-specific stuff
he only has a Chromebook though
[16:39]
mercutiohmm
and not enough space to just have a tiny windows box i assume
[16:39]
acf__trying to use office on a vps sounds painful [16:41]
mercutiowhat about kvm under linux on the chromebook hah
linux worked quite well on my chromebook
oh maybe not technically inclined
[16:41]
acf__how much ram does the chromebook have? [16:41]
mercutioi'm guessing 2gb [16:42]
acf__that's not the kind of platform I'd typically run VMs on [16:42]
mercutioso in the "not really pretty, but probably ok for office" category [16:42]
acf__tried to run Windows 10 under kvm the other day
that went terribly
[16:43]
mercutiohmm my chromebook is 2gb, and is old and discotinued
discontinued even
acf: how much ram did you give it?
[16:44]
acf__I think 3GB
it was enough I think
[16:44]
mercutioshould be enough [16:44]
acf__task manager didn't seem unhappy about it [16:44]
mercutiodid you install the proper storage drivers [16:45]
acf__I also used virtio for all the devices [16:45]
mercutioi wish starcraft would work on linux [16:45]
acf__so yeah, loaded the virtio drivers during installation
okay new plan.. start a Windows VM on AWS
and install the shitty supermicro software on that
[16:45]
mercutioi ran windows and linux on the same computer with hardware passthrough of video card for a while
one monitor with onboard video, one with video card
you really shouldn't need windows acf
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JC_Denton4 gb on the chromebook
crouton is not really feasible
[16:46]
mercutio4gb wow
4gb should be heaps to give 2gb to windows?
when it's running
[16:46]
acf__yeah I know.. but I've tried as much linux as I can
and none of it has worked
I would hope that it would at least work out of the box on Windows
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what the hell
it crashes on Windows too
all I need to know is what platform this software runs on
this is completely ridiculous
[16:59]
alright.. well I installed Java on my AWS Windows VM
and added the IPMI URL to the site exception list so that it would run unsigned applets
the KVM viewer works through the web browser now
[17:06]
mercutiomaybe that's what you need on linux too [17:11]
acf__yeah. I guess I could try using the applet in Linux
it seems like kvm through ipmiview doesn't work at all
[17:12]
mercutioit normally should
hmm
[17:13]
acf__I'm using this: ftp://ftp.supermicro.com/utility/ipmiview [17:14]
mercutioit's not working for me hah
it has in the past
it says Cannot run program "./jre/bin/java" error=13, Permission denied
[17:14]
acf__oh. that's a different one
I'll probably keep the disk for this Amazon VM around and just use it whenever I need to access the console
the whole thing is a piece of crap anyway
[17:15]
mercutiowtf
it looks like fs corruption
[17:15]
acf__fun.. [17:16]
mercutiooh it's mixing executable access
and behaves strangely
everything was coming up ???????? etc
ipmiview includes it's own java it seems
[17:16]
acf__yeah [17:17]
mercutioit's segfaulting though [17:18]
acf__ipmiview itself?
or the kvm thing?
[17:18]
mercutiokvm inside ipmiview [17:18]
acf__yeah
that's what I was getting
[17:18]
mercutiogoing to try using normal java on it [17:19]
acf__if you look at the log, it says it's segfaulting inside of native code
ie, JNI
[17:19]
mercutiohow do you run iKVM.jar?
i have he parmas
[17:20]
acf__java -jar iKVM.jar
maybe?
[17:20]
mercutiooh
i was missing the -jar
[17:21]
acf__there is some "iKVM" file in there too
not sure if it's just a script to run that command or not
I didn't look
[17:21]
mercutiocore dump [17:21]
acf__yea [17:21]
mercutio# C [libiKVM64.so+0x19194] RFBScreen::ScreenDecode()+0x104
is that what you had?
[17:21]
acf__yeah
libiKVM64.so
[17:22]
mercutioexactly? [17:22]
acf__that's the native code
pretty close
I've nuked all of those VMs now
but it was crashing in that function
[17:22]
mercutioahh
wow
[17:22]
acf__lemme check the Windows log [17:22]
mercutiojust going to check it still works from browser :) [17:23]
acf__the Windows log isn't very specific
I guess it doesn't have debugging symbols in the dll
it just shows that it's crashing somewhere in iKVM32.dll
[17:24]
mercutiohmm i got in [17:25]
acf__yeah
the browser version works
[17:25]
mercutioyeah [17:25]
acf__I didn't expect that
I imagine it's pretty much the same thing
[17:25]
mercutioi have a jnlp [17:26]
acf__but I definitely don't want Java installed in the normal browser that I use [17:26]
mercutioyou can do it using javaws [17:26]
acf__to just launch the jnlp directly?
in fact, I don't really want this sketchy supermicro stuff anywhere on my computer
but maybe in a Linux VM :P
[17:26]
mercutioheh
it does something weird to the password
it's not rot13
but it looks to be about as bad
maybe base64?
[17:26]
acf__as long as you can replay it [17:28]
mercutiobut yeah if you just get the jnlp once
you should be able to execute it later i suspect
[17:28]
acf__yeah
I recall trying that last time I was messing with this
I can't recall if that's what ended up working
[17:28]
mercutioit's kind of messy [17:29]
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brycec[m]twss [18:47]
BryceBotOkay! twss! 'it's kind of messy' [18:47]
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up_the_ironsmercutio: mike-burns : it's a child process that has ended but not reaped by the parent [19:33]
acf__: FYI, I use mercutio's ipmitool "sol activate" snippet all the time. I can get into BIOS, etc... usually without trouble. Boot loaders that don't output to serial, well, that can still be an issue, unfortunately. [19:38]
mercutiothe "not outputingto serial" boot loader issue is way worse on linux than it should be [19:39]
up_the_ironsmercutio: acf__ : indeed, we had a customer that mounted an ISO from their local machine at home to an ARP Metal box, over the VPN. I thought he was crazy but he got the whole thing installed. :) [19:42]
nathaniup_the_irons: how come this customer didnt juet provide you with a wget URL to add the ISO to the SMB share?
s/juet/just
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BryceBot<nathani> up_the_irons: how come this customer didnt just provide you with a wget URL to add the ISO to the SMB share? [19:46]
up_the_ironsgizmoguy: acf__ mercutio : that's nice that idrac8 is basically doing noVNC; i didn't know that
acf__: the Arch install ISO is what we use for all our new systems; it has everything you need. From there, debootstrap turns the box into Ubuntu for us. and it works great over serial doing what mercutio said
acf__: you were able to type blind from serial? (like, it works with input but not output?)
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acf__yeah, this Arch install ISO is pretty great
when I was doing this with the Debian live CD, I had to actually install the packages for lvm2 into the live cd first
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mercutioit also has things like smartmontools [20:16]
acf__I never got it to respond to input over the serial console. it might be me doing something stupid though of course
I'll try again after this operation is complete when Ireboot
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mercutiomaybe see if you can get into bios first
just to make sure keyboard is working
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acf__yeah. I got into BIOS over the serial console to change the boot order
so I know that works
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mercutioahh [20:17]
acf__(apparently it doesn't honor the ipmi boot order setting?) [20:18]
mercutioi didn't know ipmi has boot order [20:18]
acf__maybe that's why it wasn't working :P
there was some setting in ipmitool that claimed to get it to boot from cdrom
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mercutiowhen mounting new cd sometimes you have to full reset
rather than reboot
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acf__> bootdev <device> [<clear-cmos=yes|no>] [<options=help,...>]
> Request the system to boot from an alternate boot device on next reboot
hmm
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mercutiohmm that sounds good
hp has something like that, which does work
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acf__I was fully powering off each time if that's what you mean [20:20]
mercutiobut you still do a reset
hmm, amybe reset is better than power off
dunno
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acf__yeah idk
but changing it in the bios worked
so that was fine
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mercutioi change cd with hp with ssh normally now, rather than load up web ui [20:20]
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acf__okay.. so I wait for isolinux to load
then I blindly type "<tab><space>console=ttyS0,115200<enter>"
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mercutiotype it at the menu yeh
oh and an extra enter
cos i forgot to select the item after changing it
i think you need it twice,
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acf__well, I don't get a menu
the only output I get is a single line
> ISOLINUX 6.03 6.03* ETCD Copyright (C) 1994-2014 H. Peter Anvin et al
of course that works if I do it on the graphical console, but not on the serial console
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mercutiooh so it's not acceping serial input either
i think what's happening is that syslinux is trying to use the serial port at the same time as ipmi
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acf__hmm?
ipmi tries to use the serial port?
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mercutiowell the menu came up fine on serial port with kvm
yeah the bios uses ipmi
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acf__I thought what happened was the serial port was just a normal serial port [21:10]
mercutiothats' why you can see the bios [21:10]
acf__and the BIOS uses it, until it transfers control away to something else [21:10]
mercutioyeah i think the transfering control is being screwy i mean [21:11]
acf__oh hmm
yeah that could be it
I wonder if there are BIOS options I can tweak that would fix it
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mercutioyou can probably change the assigned serial port
and syslinux is probably using ttyS0
or 0 serial port
or com1 in legacy terms
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up_the_ironsnathani: I'm not sure... guess he wanted full control ;) [21:15]
acf__I mean, if you just can't wait for a support ticket :P [21:17]
mercutioi've used remote media over dsl actually
it depends what you're booting, some stuff is a lot easier than other
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nathaniup_the_irons: you probably noticed the spike in traffic over your vpn interface if it was being graphed [21:46]
up_the_ironsi didn't look [21:46]
mercutionathani is remote booting iso's? :) [21:47]
nathaniI would probably try it to see if I could get it to work
:-)
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brycecI recall that I've tried in the past. I don't remember if I was successful, however. :P
But I have definitely run the iKVM viewer under a modern Arch Linux install
My only hiccup has ever been that icedtea/java use Firefox's proxy settings which aren't my own (I usually use Firefox to switch between socks/https proxies for tunneling). Besides that, `javaws $jnlp_file` and off it goes.
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mercutioheh i used to use firefox for alternative proxy as well hah [22:27]

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