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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: IPMI serial console
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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