From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 1 17:26:46 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D367F1065681 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from friedman@www1.emax.ca) Received: from www1.emax.ca (www1.emax.ca [69.13.248.199]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9ECDC8FC20 for ; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:26:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from friedman@www1.emax.ca) Received: from www1.emax.ca (www1.emax.ca [69.13.248.199]) by www1.emax.ca (8.12.11/8.12.9) with ESMTP id m71HQjJA035272; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:26:45 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from friedman@www1.emax.ca) Received: (from friedman@localhost) by www1.emax.ca (8.12.11/8.12.9/Submit) id m71HQi8b035271; Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:26:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from friedman) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:26:44 -0400 From: Barry Friedman To: John Cagle Message-ID: <20080801172644.GA28300@emax.ca> References: <20080729184452.GA14558@emax.ca> <6863f0c90807291826k55814fe2u837fb60493230c44@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90807291826k55814fe2u837fb60493230c44@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.42 Cc: bfriedman@emax.ca, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the console com port X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bfriedman@emax.ca List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:26:46 -0000 John, Thanks for this. I hadn't noticed the RBSU setup option F9 during boot and I see that this allows the change of serial port. In the end I was able to use the standard COM2 port by changing the sio1 flags in /boot/device.hints and this seems to work in freebsd 7 (also needed to remove the sio0 flags line and add a boot.config file). In examing the RBSU options, I noticed a thermal shutdown option which was enabled. Is there any chance of this triggering a reboot without leaving any ILO log messages? Barry You wrote: > You have to use the BIOS configuration utility to configure which COM port > resources are used for the iLO Virtual Serial Port. (Also called RBSU - ROM > Based Setup Utility.) That utility is either menu driven, or command line > driven -- it has its own settings for that choice. > > I think the root of the problem Anders was having is that FreeBSD insists on > using the ACPI tables to enable serial ports, instead of just "hardwiring" > the COM1 and COM2 ports as serial consoles. Maybe if you disable ACPI you > can do what Anders wanted to do. -- Barry Friedman Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9 bfriedman@emax.ca Phone: (613) 725-3198 Fax: 725-0298