From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Feb 23 04:53:28 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 C7F6BF76; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:53:28 +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 35F33C00; Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:53:27 +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 r1N4r5Aq048403 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:23:11 +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: <990E6085-A7DC-4617-9E27-1EFB326A654F@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 15:23:03 +1030 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <09CC54B3-028A-4944-BD0E-0AD191D4D634@gsoft.com.au> References: <00CC60B5-A6EB-4A3C-B8AC-1D60014DE442@gsoft.com.au> <201302211049.13863.jhb@freebsd.org> <20130221220317.GA90640@icarus.home.lan> <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> To: Paul Mather X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1499) X-Spam-Score: 0.959 () BAYES_00,FUZZY_VPILL,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , Steven Hartland , 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: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 04:53:28 -0000 On 23/02/2013, at 24:36, Paul Mather 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