no serial console for ttyd0 HP Blade

[Ulf Zimmermann]

I take that back, on blades the virtual serial is on COM1.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 11:36:51PM -0700, Ulf Zimmermann wrote:
> 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
> > Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source  
> > and other randomness
> > 
> > 
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> 
> -- 
> Regards, Ulf.
> 
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Regards, Ulf.

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