Monthly Archives: December 2013

Ubuntu “reboot” on Supermicro X9SCI/X9SCA shuts down

On two recent Supermicro servers, typing reboot actually shuts down the server. Thanks to Google and this blogpost, major.io/2013/06/03/supermicro-x9scix9sca-server-does-a-shutdown-rather-than-a-reboot/ no longer have this issue. Short story: just blacklist the module named “mei” and you’re good.

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Mikrotik DHCP and PXE boot

If you want to boot with DHCP/PXE/TFTP method and your DHCP is handled by a Mikrotik router and your TFTP server is on another server, then you need to set the next-server and boot-file-name parameters in the network definition. Do … Continue reading

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