Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2020 20:39:43 -0600 From: "Josh Paetzel" <jpaetzel@FreeBSD.org> To: "Xin Li via freebsd-hackers" <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Console redirection for UEFI and IPMI-SOL Message-ID: <55931f9f-73ca-41e5-a069-a18b32333430@www.fastmail.com> In-Reply-To: <0E861DC2-D1C3-4E17-A8C1-FD68C60147CA@freebsd.org> References: <0E861DC2-D1C3-4E17-A8C1-FD68C60147CA@freebsd.org>
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On Fri, Jan 10, 2020, at 12:30 PM, Ravi Pokala wrote: > Hi folks, > > I'm trying to bring 12.1-RELEASE up on a new hardware platform. The > system will boot from an NVMe device, so it must boot using UEFI. > > I've installed UEFI-based systems several times before, without any > trouble. But for those previous platforms, the VGA console was all I > needed; on this new platform, I need a serial console, using IPMI > Serial-Over-LAN. I've set up SOL plenty of times before too... but only > on BIOS-based systems. It's the combination of UEFI+SOL which seems to > be causing me problems. > > When I boot, I see output from loader.efi on both the VGA and the SOL > consoles; they report the console type as "efi". When the kernel starts > running, I only see the output on the VGA console, not the SOL console. > My ideal configuration -- which is what I have on my BIOS-based systems > -- is: > > - bootloader on both VGA console and SOL console > - kernel output on both VGA console and SOL console > - single-user prompt on whichever I selected as the primary (first in > the 'console' list in /boot/loader.conf) > - login prompts on both consoles after `getty' has started. > > On the aforementioned previous BIOS+SOL systems, /boot/loader.conf > contains the following: > > | boot_serial="YES" > | console="comconsole vidconsole" > | kern.vty="vt" # 10.x; different on 12.1? > | hw.vga.textmode="1" > > When I used those same settings on the UEFI systems, loader.efi > complains about "vidconsole" not being valid, and I got no more output > anywhere. Changing that to "efi" let me get the kernel messages on the > VGA console, but still nothing on the SOL. > > I'm happy to provide more info about the platform; just tell me what > commands to run to gather it. > > Thanks, > > Ravi (rpokala@) > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list > https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > So in EFI land you're going to want console="comconsole efi" You'll probably also want boot_multicons="YES" Almost certainly the loader needs to be told over what serial port the IPMI serial port really is. It's probably very helpfully sending all the output to a header on the motherboard somewhere. dmesg is your friend there. comconsole_port and possibly comconsole_speed may need to be set. ipmitool sol info 1 to see what the volatile and non-volatile bit rates are set to. -- Thanks, Josh Paetzel
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