From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 00:20:27 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9F5524D3 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x233.google.com (mail-la0-x233.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::233]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 278022F8 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:20:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f51.google.com with SMTP id q1so10396744lam.24 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:20:25 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=9yY2tLlo6VII+YUX4Fb6ObNuXskWDcEH7x9XYt9JE2U=; b=talTbqqghCGu5RDc6qmev3Z7KlMzZW+aE3t11/pu24SkIQB8HoghiRSCgW7ImcU8Mo FXJZ6pctN9zr3RInphEbSDmF0+Aaq5pPN16EQMIfKcIfTjypLen/g7iDjhLwdMQNgqGI EjxSoAR4ZqARbKK3T3DaAN215WgRuQ5v6RMo6Q9eCfXTbI20skMiERm9Yml48mvoOBEy 8vhGSt1toqJRZtL8ZfZSOplXH3HiQ8SYCTL2ubWk8gydj7izCFKrmYljMMg3nj/1LY6M +NX8BRY12h28KKRH4ZsW3WDesr/hgVnddNKuQPvGDt5gd5tmOZrZmVfQiVRvtvwNFi55 8/kQ== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.9.225 with SMTP id d1mr13247669lab.38.1415751625196; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:20:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.78.134 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:20:25 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:20:25 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles From: Andreas Nilsson To: Dmitry Morozovsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:20:27 -0000 On Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 1:10 AM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson > wrote: > >> >> >> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky >> wrote: >> >>> Paul, >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Paul Mather wrote: >>> >>> > > I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading >>> some documents >>> > >>> > Aye, and there's the rub: I've found that the COM port that SOL uses >>> > varies across different Supermicro server models, and the BIOS support >>> > for assigning or determining the COM port differs (or is sometimes >>> > nonexistent) between those servers. :-( >>> > >>> > I recently spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why SOL was >>> > not working on a particular Supermicro server and it turned out to be >>> > that the COM port differed to those I'd used in previous setups. >>> >>> Yes, at least on X8SIE your hint works, swithing to com3 with >>> >>> # SOL console >>> boot_multicons="yes" >>> boot_serial="YES" >>> console="comconsole vidconsole" >>> # com3 is ipmi/sol console >>> comconsole_port="0x3E8" >>> comconsole_speed="115200" >>> >>> works, thanks a lot! >>> >>> Still fighting microcloud blades... >>> >>> Next thing will be consolidation all these into conserver-com for both >>> logging >>> and centralized management... >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Sincerely, >>> D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] >>> [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> >>> >> Well, >> >> I just performed my upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 and now serial does not work >> anymore, so something funky is going on. >> >> I made sure to copy both the loader.conf and ttys file just to be sure. I >> see the loader loading modules, but as soon as kernel takes over serial >> console goes quiet :/ >> >> Best Regards >> Andreas >> > > Some more data points: > The difference between working and non-working serial console are one > single line in loader.conf: > hw.uart.console=1234 > > loader.conf looks like: > > zfs_load="YES" > > geom_mirror_load="YES" > > ipfw_load="YES" > > ipmi_load="YES" > > coretemp_load="YES" > > beastie_disable="YES" > > boot_serial="YES" > > boot_multicons="YES" > > console="comconsole,vidconsole" > > > hint.uart.0.port="0x3E8" > > hint.uart.0.irq="10" > > hw.uart.console="1234" > > hint.acpi_throttle.0.disbled=1 > > net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1 > > Best regards > Andreas > Oh, setting hw.uart.console=1234 renders me with a working serial console over iLO on the HP machine as well ( HP dl360 g5 ilo2-2.22 ) Best regards Andreas