Do you find yourself in the position where you just bought a piece of server kit (new or used) and you do not know what the IPMI password is, and you don't have a OS/screen to reset it, or it's set to some static IP that you don't know? Please enjoy this small (70MB) image you can put on a USB stick and blindly boot the machine into, assuming the USB boots, it will set the IPMI to a known value, and set the network back to "normal" values (no VLAN and DHCP) Enjoy! (and report back if you find it worked on things not already confirmed in the readme)
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selea@social.linux.p..
replied 14 Feb 2026 08:43 +0000
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benjojo
replied 14 Feb 2026 10:34 +0000
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kunsi@chaos.social
replied 12 Feb 2026 18:50 +0000
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arjjra@mastodon.nl
replied 13 Feb 2026 06:23 +0000
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th@social.v.st
replied 12 Feb 2026 19:40 +0000
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@benjojo that's handy! last time I had to reset the IPMI password, I did the only other reasonable thing and emulated the SPI flash during boot to give myself ssh access to the antique Linux running on the ASPEED BMC.
srslypascal@chaos.so..
replied 12 Feb 2026 19:49 +0000
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jamesfmilne@mastodon..
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