Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2022 12:06:25 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: "stable@freebsd.org" <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Trying to boot a supermicro H8DMT board Message-ID: <e1972327-dcf8-3485-382b-39b9021946a6@digiware.nl> In-Reply-To: <YeFUErC27C6ud5lf@in-addr.com> References: <8ac447b6-eaaf-0a8f-da69-27db15dd6f55@digiware.nl> <YeFUErC27C6ud5lf@in-addr.com>
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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. Thanx, --WjW
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