Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 10:49:13 -0500 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Message-ID: <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au>
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On Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:45:13 am Daniel O'Connor wrote: > Hi all, > A recent thread inspired me to try getting a proper serial console working on a Supermicro X9SCL motherboard with IPMI. > > However I find that while I see loader messages and the getty I enabled after boot I don't get any kernel messages which does somewhat limit the utility.. > > The BMC creates COM3 (/dev/cuau2) which works with getty. I modified /boot/loader.conf like so.. > boot_multicons="yes" > boot_serial="YES" > console="comconsole vidconsole" > comconsole_speed="115200" > # Disable console flags on these 2 ports > hint.uart.0.flags="0x00" > hint.uart.1.flags="0x00" > # Set console flag > hint.uart.2.flags="0x10" > > Does anyone have any hints? Rather than using all these hints, just use these three in loader.conf: console="comconsole vidconsole" console_speed=115200 console_port="0x<blah>" (where <blah> is the correct I/O port for COM3, 0x3e8 maybe?) -- John Baldwin
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