SilverTip257 wrote: > On Tue, Jan 21, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Timothy Murphy <gayleard at alice.it> wrote: > >> I'm getting the (unintelligible to me) error message >> ipmi_si: Could not set up I/O space >> ERST: Failed to get Error Log Address Range >> when I try to boot any OS on the grub menu >> apart from the one I last installed. >> (Actually, Windows also boots properly.) >> >> I wonder if anyone has had this error message, >> and worked out where it comes from? > You have the IPMI daemon running on boot (which is normally acceptable [on > servers equipped with iLO/BMC hardware] ). > > chkconfig --list ipmi > > service ipmi status > > I'd start by trying to stop and then start the ipmi daemon -- maybe you'll > get additional useful information. > > service ipmi stop > service ipmi start > > >> >> I googled for it, and it has come up many times; >> but there seem to be several entirely different suggested causes. >> >> I am running CentOS-6.5 on an HP MicroServer. >> I mention that as some of the explanations >> suggest that it only occurs on certain machines. <snip> And once you see that /dev/ipmi is running, then what I'm assuming you have installed, ipmitools, ipmitool sel list to see the system event log, which is a BMC hardware thing, independent of the O/S - it's *low* level. mark