From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 21 22:42:55 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EED69EC1; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:42:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AC0B206; Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:42:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-85-105.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.85.105]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r1LMg9En039083 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:12:54 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.2 \(1499\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <51269ABD.2040308@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 09:12:53 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <2AF6F8E4-A45E-4D4C-9232-FF09AD4A3641@gsoft.com.au> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <51269ABD.2040308@gmail.com> To: Navdeep Parhar X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 22:42:56 -0000 On 22/02/2013, at 8:37, Navdeep Parhar wrote: >> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either. >=20 > What does "dmesg | grep uart" show? I have a PCI serial card whose > serial port I'm using as a console. I had to setup comconsole_pcidev, > comconsole_port, and comconsole_speed properly in loader.conf to get = it > to work. uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0 uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0 uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0 The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that = doesn't use it which is the problem. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C