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From: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>
To: Daniel O'Connor <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Subject: Re: IPMI serial console
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On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 08:26:02AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> On 22/02/2013, at 2:19, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> wrote:
> >> 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?)
> 
> No dice :(
> 
> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.

Try setting the IPMI pieces (in the IPMI device itself) to 9600bps.

Then try using 9600bps in FreeBSD (loader.conf or /boot.config, as well
as in inittab/getty).

If this works for you, I can expand further on why, if requested.

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