RE: [Freeipmi-devel] Set Boot Device Parameter in ipmi-chassis-config

[Liebig, Holger]

Hey Al,
> 
> Hey Holger,
> 
> Well, I went ahead and backported it anyways :P  It appears to work fine
> for me. Do you want to give the attached patch a shot?  If it works for
> you I can include it in 0.8.12.  If you don't have time to try it out, no
> worries, we'll just wait for the 0.9.1 release for it to be in there.

Works as expected (great),

Thanks for backporting this.

Holger

> > >
> > > The primary differences between 0.8.10 and trunk is my call to "BMC
> > > boot flag valid bit clearing" (param 3 as you describe below).  My
> > > recollection about this section is a little hazy, but I believe you
> > > want to call this command so that boot parameters are permanently
> > > stored (rather than being cleared after a reboot).  Is this the side
> > > affect you're witnessing?
> >
> > Since this was reported from a customer, I might not have all
> information what he is really doing and if he was sending the chassis
> control command within the required 60 seconds (if not disabled with the
> BMC flag valid bit clearing).
> >