Arno B <centos@...> writes:
Hello!
I'm trying to install Centos 6.4 64 bit on this Xserve:
http://www.everymac.com/systems/apple/xserve/specs/xserve-intel-xeon-2.8-eig...
I got a bootloader from:
http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/07/23/linux-on-an-apple-xserve-efi-onl...
as none of the official Centos releases (full, minimal, network 64 bit)
boot on this machine.
They all crash when loading the bootx64.conf.
I have built a USB stick with a working bootx64.efi, grub.cfg, together
with an initrd and a vmlinuz
from the isolinux folder. These seem to get me into booting a kernel until something called IPMI is
starting to throw
errors at me:
Console: switching to colour frame buffer device 128x48 fb0: VESA VGA frame buffer device ipmi message handler version 39.2 IPMI System Interface driver. ipmi_si 0000:09:00.4: enable device (0002 -> 0003) ipmi_si 0000:09:00.4: PCI INT C -> GSI 16 (level, low) -> IRQ 16 ipmi_si: Adding PCI-specified kcs state machine ipmi_si 0000:09:00.7: enable device (0000 -> 0003) ipmi_si 0000:09:00.7: PCI INT D -> GSI 17 (level, low) -> IRQ 17 ipmi_si: Adding PCI-specified bt state machine ipmi_si: Trying PCI-specified kcs state machine at mem address 0x90841000,
slave address 0x0 irq 16
IRQ 16/ipmi_si: IRQF_DISABLED is not guaranteed on shared IRQs Using irq 16 ipmi: Found new BMC (man_id: 0x00003f, prod_id: 0x0003, dev_id: 0x20) IPMI kcs interface initialized ipmi_si: Trying PCI-specified kcs state machine at mem address 0x90840000,
slave address 0x0 irq 17
Refined TSC clocksource calibration: 2792.999 MHz. Switching to clocksource tsc IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY ] 1 retries left IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs) IPMI BT: timeout in XACTION [ B_BUSY H2B ] failed 2 retries, sending error response IPMI: BT reset (takes 5 secs)
then the screen goes to black and the machine doesn't respond to anything
anymore...
Can anyone please help me with this? Maybe just point me in a direction
where to find a solution?
I've been googling for a few days now without much results...
thanks in advance
Arno Beekman
Just add ipmi_si.addrs=0x90841000 ipmi_si.irqs=16 to the kernel boot options
In Ubuntu add this to /etc/default/grub
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="ipmi_si.addrs=0x90841000 ipmi_si.irqs=16"
"The si_type may be either "kcs", "smic", or "bt". If you leave it blank, it defaults to "kcs"." source: http://openipmi.sourceforge.net/IPMI.txt
According to that only one can be used!
What happens is kcs loads then bt loads after and then it hangs and keeps retrying, adding the mem addrs and irq solves this