Serial console configured ... break to DDB still doesn't work ..

[Jo Rhett]

Just FYI, "hints" aren't.  Er, acpi ignores them.  We found that if  
ACPI wants 2F8 on a given sio port, it was better ... er, only  
worked ;-) if we configured device.hints to match what ACPI expected.

FYI, you might find "-dH" in /boot.config to be more useful that the  
console setting in loader.conf.  It sets console=comconsole by  
default, but leaves you able to override it from the vid console if  
you are at the keyboard when it boots.  Very useful.

On Dec 16, 2006, at 9:34 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> kernel is built so that it uses COM2 (0x2F8) as comconsole, and I  
> have the
> following in my /boot/loader.conf:
>
> hint.sio.0.flags="0x30"
> hint.sio.0.port="0x2F8"
> hint.sio.0.irq="3"
> console="comconsole vidconsole"
> comconsole_speed="115200"
> boot_multicons="yes"
>
> Now, I had missed a step from the handbook, and that was to  
> configure my boot
> blocks for the change in com port ... or, rather, I added the  
> settings to
> /etc/make.conf, 'cd /sys/boot; ...' and installed them, just forgot  
> to do the
> bsdlabel ... type'd reboot, slap'd my forehead for not remembering,  
> but,
> everything came up as expected ... so, does the hint.sio stuff  
> above override
> the requirement to set things in /etc/make.conf and do bsdlabel?   
> The handbook
> instructions seem to be from pre-6.x days as it is, as it still  
> talks about
> configuring sio via the kernle config ...
>
> So, I reboot, on my VSP, I get all of the normal device probe stuff  
> that one
> would expect, and, thanks to my getty on port ttyd0,I get a login  
> prompt ...
> all great.
>
> Now, through telnet to ilo, I do:
>
> ^]send break
>
> nadda, doesn't drop me to the debugger ... so, I suspect that ilo  
> is trapping
> the break and not passing it to the backend / DDB?
>
> Now, funny thing ... I did do a reset of iLO, which proceeded to  
> drop the
> system into DDB ... so, somehow, I have to get iLO to send that  
> break ... ?
>
> I'm double checking with ALT_BREAK_TO_DEBUGGER set, to see if I can  
> get *that*
> to work ... but, if anyone has any thoughts on this, please, I'm  
> all ears ...
> I'm sooooooo close ...
>
>
>
>
>
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Jo Rhett
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Silicon Valley Colocation