Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:09:07 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Message-ID: <BD518307-6A92-474E-978D-69F3546C601C@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20130221230001.GF2598@kib.kiev.ua> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <E44ABF7A-3795-471B-B241-7103ECE2119E@gsoft.com.au> <51269ABD.2040308@gmail.com> <2AF6F8E4-A45E-4D4C-9232-FF09AD4A3641@gsoft.com.au> <5126A3A1.1030208@gmail.com> <64293C7A-038A-4EA1-B394-9E80CFCBC14F@gsoft.com.au> <20130221230001.GF2598@kib.kiev.ua>
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On 22/02/2013, at 9:30, Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com> wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>=20 >> On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 >>>> uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 >>>> uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on = acpi0 >>>>=20 >>>> The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that = doesn't use it which is the problem. >=20 > It might be not the serial port, to which the loader talks. The = supermicro > boards I dealt with, have a feature of VGA text mode redirection to = the > serial port. This is how bios redirection usually works. Ahh OK, sneaky sneaky.. My has 'Forever', 'Until boot loader', and 'never', so I selected the = second one. > You could look at some bios knob which controls the point where the > said redirection is stopped. It should be like 'after the OS takes > the control', and not 'forever'. For BIOS, the loader is OS. I just tried rebuilding the boot blocks to work at 115200 like so.. cd /usr/src/sys/boot make BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=3D115200 sudo make install sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/da0 However no luck either (with the above change) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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