Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2014 01:10:30 +0100 From: Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> To: Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> Cc: FreeBSD Stable Mailing List <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles Message-ID: <CAPS9%2BSv4kNjR=69kWEf8zhAXGBpRYmULZm8AnFxSscBiw2wwiw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CAPS9%2BSuvWq1vtBw8K3J5NRs30272MV7EgkFMT57A=FspeZvCbQ@mail.gmail.com> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.1411112022500.25949@woozle.rinet.ru> <3C955A8F-9D1A-463B-BB9A-256C36BF0D4C@gromit.dlib.vt.edu> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1411112226450.25949@woozle.rinet.ru> <CAPS9%2BSuvWq1vtBw8K3J5NRs30272MV7EgkFMT57A=FspeZvCbQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru> 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
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