From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 11 19:45:20 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 449362A7 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:45:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x22f.google.com (mail-la0-x22f.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::22f]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (Client CN "smtp.gmail.com", Issuer "Google Internet Authority G2" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D48CF222 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 19:45:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f47.google.com with SMTP id gd6so10212246lab.34 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:45:17 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; bh=nbgANKjIrTlU0pEGYGhP5p0l1H/kzYjBD8JaVJne/tc=; b=wC0Tv7LBHldJQfcaaordcOIFs1whLD+ZQWaN4/uiwbKwlysxIlg0UqEFV2Ze5kdwd8 JDKusfa5tQbN2tBAgtzqLS14lLfJZcq8BvDmHPy3OiMb1hqiB93Ph12/vknaOH2+h46K ko7Mrpya6cRYJe+EAQv6Qrcs2lMt6RNGuZn8rmJd6GG7G7JYIBD1tTestElzdD7MmIVI OQvKyMLrfKg/k6ELYaZxaaBQFVDeTYrCsJXqbj/SS+lwEXfykdDfk0+/TJktgJBzFB1C mCuVUKD/gRHPD5iSKMovgcWcy6HLXh8oFr3piAFM8rdj0oB6tPvboMFkIJrWoPaOuVPw sXmw== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.112.234.201 with SMTP id ug9mr38558690lbc.14.1415735117803; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:45:17 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.78.134 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 11:45:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2014 20:45:17 +0100 Message-ID: Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles From: Andreas Nilsson To: Dmitry Morozovsky Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.18-1 Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List 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 19:45:20 -0000 On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky wrote: > 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 *** > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Well, I just performed my upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 and now serial does not work anymore, so something funky is going on. I made sure to copy both the loader.conf and ttys file just to be sure. I see the loader loading modules, but as soon as kernel takes over serial console goes quiet :/ Best Regards Andreas