On 12/03/16 12:37, Michael Howard wrote: > On 12/03/2016 09:54, Gordan Bobic wrote: >> So I just got my MP30-AR0 fitted into a case, and I have a few >> observations and questions. >> >> 1) The machine seems to not POST with lopsided memory configurations. >> For example, I have 6x8GB RDIMMs, and it POSTs with 4 DIMMs in the >> blue slots, but doesn't POST with the extra 2 DIMMs added to the black >> slots on banks 0 and 1. Is this expected? >> > There are four channels, each of two slots, populated slot0/slot1, > unless you use just a single dimm :) However, the scant manual suggests > only 1,2,4 and 8 slot configurations. Yes, that's impression I was getting, too, but it is a bit of a bizzare limitation. >> 2) u-boot doesn't appear to be responding to keystrokes to interrupt >> the boot sequence via network KVM console. Am I missing a trick here? >> How do I interrupt the boot without using a directly connected USB >> keyboard? >> > I can't get the network KVM (via BMC) to accept anything. I suspect this is to do with Java on the client side. The KVM/media client is Java based and it complains at startup that it couldn't find various native libraries. Googling around the subject indicates that the management app only comes with 32-bit support, and CentOS 7 only comes with 64-bit icedtea-web. :-( Gordan