IPMI serial console

[Jeremy Chadwick]

On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 10:01:45AM +1030, Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> 
> On 22/02/2013, at 8:33, Jeremy Chadwick <jdc at koitsu.org> wrote:
> >> I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.
> > 
> > Try setting the IPMI pieces (in the IPMI device itself) to 9600bps.
> > 
> > Then try using 9600bps in FreeBSD (loader.conf or /boot.config, as well
> > as in inittab/getty).
> > 
> > If this works for you, I can expand further on why, if requested.
> 
> 
> Well that broke everything :)
> 
> - No messages from the BIOS
> - No kernel messages
> - No getty output
> 
> Now to forward a tun interface so I can run the Java faux-VNC client and fix it.

Wow, that's disappointing.  I wonder if the underlying IPMI firmware has
a bug relating to using serial port speeds other than 115200.

You can see my other mail to kib@ and -stable regarding why I
recommended trying this.  Sorry for making your life difficult; wasn't
my intention.

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