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[-] ik5pvx@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

You can mount an ISO image through the BMC and boot the server from there. A serial port would be too slow. The management ethernet is supposed to be on a separate network not exposed on the same network as the rest.

[-] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 2 days ago

You can mount an ISO image through the BMC and boot the server from there.

I mean, you can typically do a TFTP boot on the systems that I've seen that have serial-capable BIOS setups.

considers

Heck, I think that all of my modern personal non-serial-port-BIOS systems can do that, even.

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