MacOS IPMIView and Supermicro X9SRi-F web interface cannot mount ISOs; on Windows, the web started Java iKVM console can
Posted by jpluimers on 2021/05/07
Screenshots so I do not forget.
Works from Windows Java iKVM Viewer v1.69.21 started via the web interface:
C:\Users\jeroenp>java -version java version "1.8.0_211" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_211-b12) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.211-b12, mixed mode)
Fails from web interface:
It does not matter if the share is
iso$oriso: both fail in the same way.
Note this was after working around this very confusion error message from the web interface:
The image path is invalid or contain /:*?"<>|
The error message is just telling that the path should start with a back-slash:
With HTML5 iKVM this seems to work fine, but that requires more recent motherboards:
[WayBack] How to map a network share to boot from ISO, moving Supermicro Java iKVM to browser-only HTML5 iKVM | TinkerTry IT @ Home
Fails on MacOs with Java iKVM Viewer v1.69 r14.
# java -version java version "1.8.0_74" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.8.0_74-b02) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 25.74-b02, mixed mode)
Gets you the rainbow circle of death and an “application not responding”
The success and failure are the same no matter the firmware; the same results were obtained both before and after upgrading the IPMI firmware:
–jeroen
PS: from Twitter
- [Archive.is] DevOpsCats on Twitter: “For the Dell stuff I run an old Java stack on Linux in docker to get around this stuff, probably could do similar for SMC?… “
- [Archive.is] DevOpsCats on Twitter: “Someone smarter than me came up with the original idea :). Here’s one I’ve used as a basis: https://t.co/ygO2cm4oFd… “
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