From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Nov 12 00:10:34 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0373633C for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:10:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-la0-x235.google.com (mail-la0-x235.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4010:c03::235]) (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 6C1FD1E1 for ; Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:10:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-la0-f53.google.com with SMTP id mc6so10598805lab.12 for ; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:10:30 -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=NSemd5gFYHpv+zqCJYnOURNG1nwLNxajfBXRpSMBfNI=; b=nurC+3/wD5fJMY/UE7/oim6iqiaHr7DljjOG5sMBvQ03enoKM5xxKtpBXzLK9+cAZ+ B+Gov2rNgvDz9pf6qR3UhgfjtZnC02rpjUUCX2V8dJo+KbU4Ecttq+BgsTdbXQ1od+rK TtqdkQTVlRl8wIhW1lv6kcnKzcu3NRKTLoXT2V18h6aMy4ZWtlBO3z43SIPEfXgy2+NW +LL8m5snm1MeNXUEdfQkgqXrMxWXOipeI/QwVZtfSRIH85CTqjqlUBZwV8nXHIinNII7 /iMYI8EZuSIpF5EwaAKy6a7f26csEYisknEQ5i/l6K0BiubLYapFQseTqwqnHSAfP940 GBmg== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.152.9.136 with SMTP id z8mr11119938laa.2.1415751030843; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.25.78.134 with HTTP; Tue, 11 Nov 2014 16:10:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:10:30 +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: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 00:10:34 -0000 On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson wrote: > > > 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 > Some more data points: The difference between working and non-working serial console are one single line in loader.conf: hw.uart.console=1234 loader.conf looks like: zfs_load="YES" geom_mirror_load="YES" ipfw_load="YES" ipmi_load="YES" coretemp_load="YES" beastie_disable="YES" boot_serial="YES" boot_multicons="YES" console="comconsole,vidconsole" hint.uart.0.port="0x3E8" hint.uart.0.irq="10" hw.uart.console="1234" hint.acpi_throttle.0.disbled=1 net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1 Best regards Andreas