[CentOS] ipmi_si error on booting

Wed Jan 22 17:01:55 UTC 2014
m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>

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.

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