no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

[Ulf Zimmermann]

Also remember that the blades have 2 serial ports, one can be accessed via
a dongle in the front of the blade and I believe that is what usual would be
called COM1 by default. The virtual serial via ilo takes up the COM2 by
default. This is at least the default on DL series servers and I haven't
checked into using the virtual serial on the Blades we have.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:42:16PM -0700, Jo Rhett wrote:
> This rhymes with sio deciding that your TTY is something other than  
> ttyd0.  We had this same problem on Rackable -- even though the proper  
> tty was setup 0x3f8 irq 4 it was being assigned to sio1.   You can see  
> this by 'grep sio /var/log/messages'
> 
> The only fix for this is to edit /boot/device.hints and reassign the  
> flags to the sio1 interface, like so:
> 
> hint.sio.1.at="isa"
> hint.sio.1.port="0x3F8"
> hint.sio.1.flags="0x10"
> hint.sio.1.irq="4"
> hint.sio.0.at="isa"
> hint.sio.0.port="0x2F8"
> hint.sio.0.irq="3"
> 
> On Jul 1, 2008, at 8:23 AM, Marian Hettwer wrote:
> >I installed a recent (as of today) RELENG_7 on one of our HP Blades.
> >Unluckily my serial output stops right when a getty at ttyd0 should  
> >kick
> >in. So I'm blind for the rest of the startup.
> >Very unfortunate.
> >The boot menu, as the bootup itself is printed out on serial console  
> >until:
> >da0: <COMPAQ RAID 0  VOLUME OK> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-5 device
> >da0: 135.168MB/s transfers
> >da0: 139947MB (286611840 512 byte sectors: 255H 32S/T 35124C)
> >Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/da0s1a
> >bce0: link state changed to DOWN
> >bce0: link state changed to UP
> >bce1: link state changed to UP
> >
> >Which is, what I think, the point when init should take over and  
> >spawn a
> >serial console on ttyd0, according to my /etc/ttys:
> ># grep ttyd0 /etc/ttys
> >ttyd0	"/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"	vt100	on secure
> >
> ># cat /boot/loader.conf
> >comconsole_speed="9600"
> >console="vidconsole,comconsole"		# A comma separated list of  
> >console(s)
> >boot_multicons="-D"	# -D: Use multiple consoles
> >boot_serial="-h"		# -h: Use serial console
> >
> ># uname -a
> >FreeBSD db46-202.mobile.rz 7.0-STABLE FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE #0: Tue  
> >Jul  1
> >14:59:43 CEST 2008     root at db46-202.mobile.rz:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ 
> >GENERIC
> >amd64
> >
> >The blade itself is a HP BL465c G5
> >
> >Any ideas? I don't have this blade for a long time, so I'm a bit in a
> >hurry.
> >In fact, right now I'm testing this setup against a Debian 4.0 with  
> >Linux
> >2.6.25.9 under MySQL load, and up until now the machine looks good.
> >If I wind up with a fully working, nearly as fast and stable as our  
> >linux
> >boxes installation, I'd might be able to convince "the boys at work"  
> >to
> >give FreeBSD a try.
> >And in a 600 server setup, I'd be thrilled to do so :-)
> >So lets get started with this serial console issue... which is  
> >indeed a
> >pain :(
> >
> >TIA,
> >Marian
> >
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> -- 
> Jo Rhett
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Regards, Ulf.

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