From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 22 03:39:29 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 AE660E4C; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:39:29 +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 01A2A21A; Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:39:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp14-2-9-156.lns21.adl2.internode.on.net [14.2.9.156]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r1M3d7GM059530 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:09:13 +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=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <20130221230001.GF2598@kib.kiev.ua> Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:09:07 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <51269ABD.2040308@gmail.com> <2AF6F8E4-A45E-4D4C-9232-FF09AD4A3641@gsoft.com.au> <5126A3A1.1030208@gmail.com> <64293C7A-038A-4EA1-B394-9E80CFCBC14F@gsoft.com.au> <20130221230001.GF2598@kib.kiev.ua> To: Konstantin Belousov 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 , Navdeep Parhar 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: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 03:39:29 -0000 On 22/02/2013, at 9:30, Konstantin Belousov wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 09:18:51AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote: >>=20 >> On 22/02/2013, at 9:15, Navdeep Parhar wrote: >>>> 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 >>>>=20 >>>> The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that = doesn't use it which is the problem. >=20 > It might be not the serial port, to which the loader talks. The = supermicro > boards I dealt with, have a feature of VGA text mode redirection to = the > serial port. This is how bios redirection usually works. Ahh OK, sneaky sneaky.. My has 'Forever', 'Until boot loader', and 'never', so I selected the = second one. > You could look at some bios knob which controls the point where the > said redirection is stopped. It should be like 'after the OS takes > the control', and not 'forever'. For BIOS, the loader is OS. I just tried rebuilding the boot blocks to work at 115200 like so.. cd /usr/src/sys/boot make BOOT_COMCONSOLE_SPEED=3D115200 sudo make install sudo gpart bootcode -b /boot/pmbr -b /boot/gptboot -i 1 /dev/da0 However no luck either (with the above change) -- 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