From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 19:29:35 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 58A67508 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:29:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from woozle.rinet.ru (woozle.rinet.ru [195.54.192.68]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CB513FCF for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:29:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by woozle.rinet.ru (8.14.5/8.14.5) with ESMTP id sABJTBOO055134; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:29:11 +0400 (MSK) (envelope-from marck@rinet.ru) Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:29:11 +0300 (MSK) From: Dmitry Morozovsky To: Paul Mather Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles In-Reply-To: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Message-ID: References: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (BSF 1167 2008-08-23) X-NCC-RegID: ru.rinet X-OpenPGP-Key-ID: 6B691B03 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.4.3 (woozle.rinet.ru [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 11 Nov 2014 23:29:11 +0400 (MSK) Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:29:35 -0000 Paul, On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Paul Mather wrote: > > I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading some documents > > Aye, and there's the rub: I've found that the COM port that SOL uses > varies across different Supermicro server models, and the BIOS support > for assigning or determining the COM port differs (or is sometimes > nonexistent) between those servers. :-( > > I recently spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why SOL was > not working on a particular Supermicro server and it turned out to be > that the COM port differed to those I'd used in previous setups. Yes, at least on X8SIE your hint works, swithing to com3 with # SOL console boot_multicons="yes" boot_serial="YES" console="comconsole vidconsole" # com3 is ipmi/sol console comconsole_port="0x3E8" comconsole_speed="115200" works, thanks a lot! Still fighting microcloud blades... Next thing will be consolidation all these into conserver-com for both logging and centralized management... -- Sincerely, D.Marck [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN] [ FreeBSD committer: marck@FreeBSD.org ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck@rinet.ru *** ------------------------------------------------------------------------