I just got 16 new servers delivered to the data center and am getting ready to rack and install them next week. The servers come with a Supermicro IPMI management system on the mainboard that does serial over LAN. I've set up the IPMI interface and can watch the machine attempt to boot from the currently empty hard drives with ipmitool. Pretty sweet.
Does anyone have any experience with installing FreeBSD (7.2 or 8.0 amd64 in this case...) from the IPMI serial-over-LAN console? Does FreeBSD treat it just like a standard serial port?
Does anyone have any experience with installing FreeBSD (7.2 or 8.0 amd64 in this case...) from the IPMI serial-over-LAN console? Does FreeBSD treat it just like a standard serial port?