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Date:      Thu, 21 Feb 2013 17:23:14 -0500
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: IPMI serial console
Message-ID:  <201302211723.14730.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <E44ABF7A-3795-471B-B241-7103ECE2119E@gsoft.com.au>
References:  <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <E44ABF7A-3795-471B-B241-7103ECE2119E@gsoft.com.au>

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On Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:56:02 pm 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.

Sorry, those should be 'comconsole_speed' and 'comconsole_port'.  Also, you 
should be able to get the loader prompt working if you enter those by hand 
using an IPMI KVM or some such.

-- 
John Baldwin



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