IPMI serial console

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 22/02/2013, at 8:37, Navdeep Parhar <nparhar at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.
> 
> What does "dmesg | grep uart" show?  I have a PCI serial card whose
> serial port I'm using as a console.  I had to setup comconsole_pcidev,
> comconsole_port, and comconsole_speed properly in loader.conf to get it
> to work.


uart0: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on acpi0
uart1: <16550 or compatible> port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on acpi0
uart2: <16550 or compatible> port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5 flags 0x30 on acpi0

The loader talks on the serial console fine, it's the kernel that doesn't use it which is the problem.

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