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Date:      Tue, 1 Jul 2008 21:42:16 -0700
From:      Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To:        Marian Hettwer <mh@kernel32.de>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade
Message-ID:  <3AC5DAEE-95F1-4211-A819-CC085DD180ED@netconsonance.com>
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This rhymes with sio deciding that your TTY is something other than  
ttyd0.  We had this same problem on Rackable -- even though the proper  
tty was setup 0x3f8 irq 4 it was being assigned to sio1.   You can see  
this by 'grep sio /var/log/messages'

The only fix for this is to edit /boot/device.hints and reassign the  
flags to the sio1 interface, like so:

hint.sio.1.at="isa"
hint.sio.1.port="0x3F8"
hint.sio.1.flags="0x10"
hint.sio.1.irq="4"
hint.sio.0.at="isa"
hint.sio.0.port="0x2F8"
hint.sio.0.irq="3"

On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> I installed a recent (as of today) RELENG_7 on one of our HP Blades.
> Unluckily my serial output stops right when a getty at ttyd0 should  
> kick
> in. So I'm blind for the rest of the startup.
> Very unfortunate.
> The boot menu, as the bootup itself is printed out on serial console  
> until:
> da0: <COMPAQ RAID 0  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> da0: 139947MB (286611840 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 35124C)
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> bce0: link state changed to UP
> bce1: link state changed to UP
>
> Which is, what I think, the point when init should take over and  
> spawn a
> serial console on ttyd0, according to my /etc/ttys:
> # grep ttyd0 /etc/ttys
> ttyd0	"/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"	vt100	on secure
>
> # cat /boot/loader.conf
> comconsole_speed="9600"
> console="vidconsole,comconsole"		# A comma separated list of  
> console(s)
> boot_multicons="-D"	# -D: Use multiple consoles
> boot_serial="-h"		# -h: Use serial console
>
> # uname -a
> FreeBSD db46-202.mobile.rz 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue  
> Jul  1
> 14:59:43 CEST 2008     root@db46-202.mobile.rz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ 
> GENERIC
> amd64
>
> The blade itself is a HP BL465c G5
>
> Any ideas? I don't have this blade for a long time, so I'm a bit in a
> hurry.
> In fact, right now I'm testing this setup against a Debian 4.0 with  
> Linux
> 2.6.25.9 under MySQL load, and up until now the machine looks good.
> If I wind up with a fully working, nearly as fast and stable as our  
> linux
> boxes installation, I'd might be able to convince "the boys at work"  
> to
> give FreeBSD a try.
> And in a 600 server setup, I'd be thrilled to do so :-)
> So lets get started with this serial console issue... which is  
> indeed a
> pain :(
>
> TIA,
> Marian
>
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-- 
Jo Rhett
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and other randomness





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