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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 27/08/2024 10:55, Zbigniew Koziol
via talk wrote:<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:3163c31e-8e66-6ad6-e5fc-63f3869694ca@gmail.com">Greetings
to all who may be remember me (it is already around 16 years as I
left Canada). To others - too :)
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I have bought that machine for computer simulations in physics,
not having before experience with similar ones.
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The first start and installing mint there went easy. My guess is
that I shut it down improperly (I do not remember details).
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>This is more of a question for a full fledged admin but AFAIK:</p>
<ul>
<li>I suspect this is an HP machine. Do search exactly for the
manual of that machine. HP has a number of iterations (GenX e.g.
Gen10) so you need the exact manual to find the battery location</li>
<li>I think there is no need to reset the BIOS if you did not
change the iLO password<br>
</li>
<li>plug a monitor - there should be a video/VGA port on the back.
When it boots, it will display the iLO IP</li>
<li>Press F11 (on my models) - you will get into a one-time boot
menu and you could boot an USB stick</li>
<li>Power button: you may need to long-press it for a full
shutdown<br>
</li>
</ul>
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cite="mid:3163c31e-8e66-6ad6-e5fc-63f3869694ca@gmail.com">
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Now, it is my guess, the machine is in standby mode (when power is
connected). The unfortunate thing is that I did not do any initial
BIOS configuration and I did not care to write down iLO IP
address.
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The lights on both power suppliers are off. The light on the front
is amber. Two lights near iLO cable are green, one solid, the
second is blinking, suggesting that iLO works properly.
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By reading the internet and documentation I found out that
sometime people have similar problems. What is advised is
resetting the beast to factory setting. That apparently can be
done by 3 methods: 1) with some magic of removing/swapping power
suppliers, 2) by changing S6 to ON on system maintenance switch
and 3) by removing CMOS battery.
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I did try the methods 1) and 2). In case of method 3) - I do not
know how to remove battery. It does not look the same as it is
drawn in the original technical documentation.
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Now, I thought I will try to use iLO. First, I need its IP
address. Yes, I know basics of using ping, nmap, etc. However, I
have at home a simple Huawey router. It allows to have netmask of
the type 255.255.255.0, only, hence scanning the entire possible
IP range is in practice, impossible.
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It happened that that I discovered an option on my desktop
computer to configure the network connection as "shared to other
computers". Hence, connected to cable directly to iLO and found
out that my IP is now 10.42.0.1. Does that mean that this is IP of
iLO? That would be a something, however, the problem does not end
there.
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How to connect to iLO anyway? My Huawey router does not allow me
to change a configuraion in such a way that 10.42.0.1 could be an
address of a connected device: it wants 10.42.0.1 to be the
gateway address.
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Any advise would be greatly appreciated.
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