Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 13:23:23 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Gary Palmer <palmer@freebsd.org> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to boot a supermicro H8DMT board Message-ID: <2ec39eef-d2e2-c55e-b032-43de86e71a57@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <YeFd9mdywqEuIJ0H@in-addr.com> References: <8ac447b6-eaaf-0a8f-da69-27db15dd6f55@digiware.nl> <YeFUErC27C6ud5lf@in-addr.com> <e1972327-dcf8-3485-382b-39b9021946a6@digiware.nl> <YeFd9mdywqEuIJ0H@in-addr.com>
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On 14-1-2022 12:26, Gary Palmer wrote: > On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >> On 14-1-2022 11:44, Gary Palmer wrote: >>> On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:27:06AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>> >>>> I was given these SMC h8DMT boards to experiment with. >>>> (For liquid cooling) >>>> >>>> Theze are server board that normally go into twin board systems. >>>> 2 Opteron 2380 per board. >>>> >>>> It sort of boots, and gets to: >>>> ?????? Beasty loader >>>> ?????? then booting the kernel after the spinner >>>> ???? prints the first few lines of boot output, like what compilers is used >>>> ???? and then output stops. >>>> >>>> I guess that it thinks it needs to write the rest to either serial console >>>> or something else. >>>> >>>> Does this sound familiar to anybody? >>>> What do I need to toggle to keep writing where it started? >>> What version of FreeBSD are you using? >> I tried both 12.2 and 13.0 (both RELEASE) >> with similar effects. >>> You can try going to the command prompt from the Beastie menu and >>> putting in >>> >>> console="comconsole" >>> comconsole_speed="115200" >>> >>> (replace the speed on 2nd line as appropriate to match the speed the board >>> used prior to the kernel loading) >> 'mmm I would expect output then to go into the serial port, which is not >> connected. >> (I'd have to see if there is flatcable thingy somewhere here.) >> But I'll give it a try anyways. >> >>> and seeing if that helps. >> Note that the board has a VGA output that I'm using. >> It also has an IPMI board, but that does not connect to the network whatever >> I try. >> So I've taken that out, but still the output went into thin air. > Apologies, I thought you were using comconsole. Just as info: As soon is I type 'set console="comconsole"' my input has gone... Not possible to set the linespeed after that, only it still accepts keyboard but does not echo to VGA. So I guess the order has to be the other way around: set speed and then swithc console. > console="vidconsole" This is the default if I show the loader options. > or > > console="efi" > if the board has EFI, may work better. Not sure if H8DMT has EFI or not It is a 2004 bios, I guess not EFI. Did not find it in any of the bios settings. I have the feeling that one way or another the kernel thinks that: it should no longer write to the VGA videobuffer Or that some settings disable the video output. --WjW
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