Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:23:03 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <jdc@koitsu.org>, Steven Hartland <killing@multiplay.co.uk>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: IPMI serial console Message-ID: <09CC54B3-028A-4944-BD0E-0AD191D4D634@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <990E6085-A7DC-4617-9E27-1EFB326A654F@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <E44ABF7A-3795-471B-B241-7103ECE2119E@gsoft.com.au> <20130221220317.GA90640@icarus.home.lan> <E88A8FF8-C4FA-4968-86A5-0E9C7AE40C97@gsoft.com.au> <6CD36AD055194E868054D5FC83E2AF6A@multiplay.co.uk> <7F35748E-736D-4AF1-BA6A-E831EF20396A@gsoft.com.au> <20130222001038.GA92824@icarus.home.lan> <0A4324A0-FBE3-4DD6-9670-421210D42586@gsoft.com.au> <990E6085-A7DC-4617-9E27-1EFB326A654F@gromit.dlib.vt.edu>
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On 23/02/2013, at 24:36, Paul Mather <paul@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> wrote: > I don't know whether all of that is needed, but, as you can see from = the various commented-out lines, it was a configuration I "arrived at" = that works. :-) >=20 > I don't have a /boot.config on this system. OK, that gives me hope :) > Usually, I have the VGA console take precedence. In that case, I get = messages on both the VGA console and the IPMI SOL console during the = BIOS screen, loader, and kernel boot messages but then only messages on = the VGA console during the rc.d boot phase. I have a serial console = enabled in /etc/ttys, so I get output (e.g., getty login) on the IPMI = SOL when that is eventually spawned. If I want to have the serial = console take precedence, I usually escape to the loader prompt (via ESC = at the loader menu) and issue a "set console=3D"comconsole,vidconsole"" = command. Then, the rc.d boot output goes to the serial console and=20 That is basically what I want - I am looking for a way to run fsck or = diagnose boot issues without having to fire up the Java app and = tunnelling into the network. > not the VGA console. (It would be nice to have rc.d init scripts = output go to both consoles, but I don't know whether that is possible.) Yeah that would be very nice, I will take what you have though :) -- 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
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