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Compaq / HP iLO / RILOe?

Has anyone who reads this ever worked with Compaq / HP iLO / RILOe boards? And more specifically, have they used them with Linux?

I’ve got a Linux-based boot floppy here that works just fine when booted in the server, but when you create an image and try to use it via the iLO / RILOe virtual floppy (this is on multiple servers) it doesn’t complete booting. On iLO it finishes reading the kernel early, then gives an error decompressing the kernel (because it didn’t read it all in). On the RILOe boards it reads the kernel and boots it, but gives an IO error when attempting to load the filesystem.

Guh, I just don’t know.

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