From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 21 18:55:52 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7C8AC46B for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:55:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Received: from betty.computinginnovations.com (dsl081-227-057.chi1.dsl.speakeasy.net [64.81.227.57]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B19E7E1 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:55:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from i7-quad-PC.computinginnovations.com (dhcp-10-20-30-142.computinginnovations.com [10.20.30.142]) by betty.computinginnovations.com (8.14.5/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r0LIqNdY030065 for ; Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:52:23 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from derek@computinginnovations.com) Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.2.20130121123250.067f3158@mail.computinginnovations.com> X-Sender: derek@mail.computinginnovations.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 6.0.0.22 Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 12:52:17 -0600 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Derek Ragona Subject: IPMI SOL setup on FreeBSD 9.1 amd64 supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-yoursite-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-yoursite-MailScanner-ID: r0LIqNdY030065 X-yoursite-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-yoursite-MailScanner-From: derek@computinginnovations.com X-Spam-Status: No X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 18:55:52 -0000 I have a couple servers that are built using the supermicro X9SCM-F/X9CL-F motherboards, and I can't quite get IPMI SOL working right. These motherboards have 3 NIC's. One NIC is for a dedicated IPMI interface. I have both servers configured to use the dedicated IPMI NIC and these NIC's are plugged into a separate unmanaged switch. Both systems boards are set to redirect com1. I changed /etc/ttys to run a getty on /dev/ttyu0. I have com1 configured to 115,200 baud, 8, n, 1, no flowcontrol in the BIOS. I in have /etc/ttys: ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.115200" vt100 on secure Using one server, I start an IPMI SOL session to the other server. But all I get is the IPMI SOL output, no login prompt. If I reboot the server I am SOL connected to, I do see the BIOS boot messages, and even the initial FreeBSD boot prompt. I can even make boot prompt changes from the SOL session. Once boot starts the SOL gets no more output. I looked at both servers and the one I am using to initiate the SOL has /dev/ipmi0 and ipmitool working fine. On the server I am trying to connect to has /dev/ipmi1 and ipmitool errors: Could not open device at /dev/ipmi0 or /dev/ipmi/0 or /dev/ipmidev/0: No such file or directory These are identical motherboards. I suspect that because the one system creates /dev/ipmi1 instead of /dev/ipmi0 may be why the SOL output stops right after the boot starts. If I do: ln -s /dev/ipmi1 /dev/ipmi0 ipmitool works fine, until the next reboot. How can I get the one system to make /dev/ipmi0 instead of /dev/ipmi1? In FreeBSD 9.1 do I use hint.uart instead of hint.sio in /boot/loader.conf? Any help would be appreciated. -Derek derek at computinginnovations.com -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.