ipmitool fails to change boot mode to PXE-boot on UEFI-based server
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ipmitool (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned | ||
Bug Description
I've tried to use ipmitool to change a server's configuration from local-disk booting to PXE-booting using ipmitool, thus:
ipmitool -H 172.24.25.53 -U ubuntu -P passwd chassis bootdev pxe
The man page suggests this should work, although it doesn't explicitly mention EFI/UEFI-mode operation. In practice, though, it did not work. I've tried it against three servers:
* Lenovo x3550 M5 with a 2.31 EFI "by EDK II"
* Lenovo x3650 M5 with a 2.31 EFI "by EDK II"
* Dell PowerEdge T110 2.10 EFI "by Dell"
I've tried numerous variants, including in-band and out-of band, running the command out-of-band when the target server is powered on vs. powered off, rebooting or powering up via ipmitool vs. locally, and forcing PXE-booting from a local disk boot and vice versa. (I haven't tried every combination of server and test, but I've tried many of them.) In all cases, ipmitool has had no effect; the server has booted or rebooted in the way it was configured to boot locally, via efibootmgr.
It's unclear to me if this is a bug in ipmitool, a limitation of the IPMI protocol with respect to EFI-based systems, or a limitation of the test servers.
Requested version information:
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS
Release: 14.04
$ apt-cache policy ipmitool
ipmitool:
Installed: 1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2
Candidate: 1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2
Version table:
*** 1.8.13-1ubuntu0.2 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
1.8.13-1 0
500 http://
