From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 23:38:40 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10E9946D for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.org) Received: from qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [IPv6:2001:558:fe2d:43:76:96:30:32]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E76A16F7 for ; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from omta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.51]) by qmta03.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 31jH1l00A16AWCUA3Bef0l; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:39 +0000 Received: from koitsu.strangled.net ([67.180.84.87]) by omta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id 3Bee1l00X1t3BNj8SBeecL; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:39 +0000 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id A034A73A1C; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:38:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 15:38:38 -0800 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Daniel O'Connor Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Message-ID: <20130221233838.GB92249@icarus.home.lan> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130221220317.GA90640@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=comcast.net; s=q20121106; t=1361489919; bh=E97yzFLSssdHxMykRHixDK/57wpam9J3acuQzHzKowo=; h=Received:Received:Received:Date:From:To:Subject:Message-ID: MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Hs8qhhQZzjFH3EKRJowcOjMC83b7Xm4drdk6dcY4hFBtqM6MmvJl/8exUJDdcTRj8 g4tXS9Q74IYCF4kJO4aiJcTVB1jNT3HON0mEsPofKZf5hhUAUzrG8ci4qzc8hfYvfL 3mgUzFy14fekKdC1Str2A1LishAqF40IHu/yeTVXEoREgj39kwNKZgTo+wz3t/7eSd AzbxAJklcjepIPcA52oKjLAMIhLITcO30Yz2fuBPnmM5JeDaAhHZj249umzaFAPOrc MOlYXTZcJ5Uh8C03USioZSMmx9qOQ2uHmkgq69JOI1yZ5KzHoFZtCXhesWKeg65PSP Xo6mTLSIARzKg== Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 23:38:40 -0000 On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:01:45AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: > > On 22/02/2013, at 8:33, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > >> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. > > > > Try setting the IPMI pieces (in the IPMI device itself) to 9600bps. > > > > Then try using 9600bps in FreeBSD (loader.conf or /boot.config, as well > > as in inittab/getty). > > > > If this works for you, I can expand further on why, if requested. > > > Well that broke everything :) > > - No messages from the BIOS > - No kernel messages > - No getty output > > Now to forward a tun interface so I can run the Java faux-VNC client and fix it. Wow, that's disappointing. I wonder if the underlying IPMI firmware has a bug relating to using serial port speeds other than 115200. You can see my other mail to kib@ and -stable regarding why I recommended trying this. Sorry for making your life difficult; wasn't my intention. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@koitsu.org | | UNIX Systems Administrator http://jdc.koitsu.org/ | | Mountain View, CA, US | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP 4BD6C0CB |