IPMI serial console

[John Baldwin]

On Thursday, February 21, 2013 5:55:01 pm Glen Barber wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 05:23:14PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> > On Thursday, February 21, 2013 4:56:02 pm Daniel O'Connor wrote:
> > > 
> > > On 22/02/2013, at 2:19, John Baldwin <jhb at freebsd.org> wrote:
> > > >> Does anyone have any hints?
> > > > 
> > > > Rather than using all these hints, just use these three in loader.conf:
> > > > 
> > > > console="comconsole vidconsole"
> > > > console_speed=115200
> > > > console_port="0x<blah>"  (where <blah> is the correct I/O port for COM3, 
> > 0x3e8 
> > > > maybe?)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > No dice :(
> > > 
> > > I also tried booting with '-D -h -S 115200' but nothing either.
> > 
> > Sorry, those should be 'comconsole_speed' and 'comconsole_port'.  Also, you 
> > should be able to get the loader prompt working if you enter those by hand 
> > using an IPMI KVM or some such.
> > 
> 
> John, this sounds very similar to a question I posed to you a few weeks
> ago.  I guess it's not "just me" with these weird SuperMicro BMCs. :(

I am using exactly this on many SuperMicro X8 and X9 boards.

-- 
John Baldwin