UEFI, ipmi console and double text (DDOOUUBBLLE TTEEXXT)

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Wed Aug 7 00:06:04 UTC 2019


On Tue, Aug 6, 2019 at 4:32 PM mike tancsa <mike at sentex.net> wrote:

> I did a fresh install of a RELENG12 image and did EFI for the boot /
> install process.  Most everything seems to work ok, but the boot menu
> gets double text printing. As before and after is OK, its not a huge
> thing, but is there a way to fix this ?
>
> loader.conf is simple
>
> comconsole_speed="115200"       # Set the current serial console speed
> boot_multicons="YES"
> boot_serial="YES"
> console="comconsole,efi"
>

Don't do that. console="efi" is all you need with your BIOS. The BIOS does
the splitting between screen and COM port, which is why you are getting
doubled characters.

Warner


> ipmi_load="YES"
> comconsole_port="0x2f8"   # for SuperMicro boards
>
>
>
>
> Press DEL to run
> Setup
> Press F11 to invoke Boot
> Menu
> Press F12 to boot from
> PXE/LAN
>   DXE--Ready to Boot..Consoles: EFI
> console
> LLooaaddiinngg
> //bboooott//llooaaddeerr..ccoonnf                            B2
>
> -- Command line arguments: loader.efi
>    EFI version: 2.40
>    EFI Firmware: American Megatrends (rev 5.11)
>    Console: efi (0x20000000)
>    Load Path: \EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
>    Load Device:
>
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0x2,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,09C9B414-AA1E-11E9-BBD8-6045CBA08A84,0x28,0x64000)
>    BootCurrent: 0006
>    BootOrder: 0006[*] 0007 0004 0003 0005
>    BootInfo Path:
>
> HD(1,GPT,09C9B414-AA1E-11E9-BBD8-6045CBA08A84,0x28,0x64000)/\EFI\BOOT\BOOTX64.EFI
> Ignoring Boot0006: Only one DP found
> Trying ESP:
>
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0x2,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(1,GPT,09C9B414-AA1E-11E9-BBD8-6045CBA08A84,0x28,0x64000)
> Setting currdev to disk0p1:
> Trying:
>
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0x2,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(2,GPT,09D3BF1A-AA1E-11E9-BBD8-6045CBA08A84,0
> Setting currdev to disk0p2:
> Trying:
>
> PciRoot(0x0)/Pci(0x17,0x0)/Sata(0x2,0xFFFF,0x0)/HD(3,GPT,09DEAE25-AA1E-11E9-BBD8-6045CBA08A84,0x1064800,0x39321800)
> Setting currdev to zfs:bucam/ROOT/default:
> Loading /boot/defaults/loader.conf
> Loading /boot/device.hints
> Loading /boot/loader.conf
> -
> JH    ____________                              ________
> __________  __________
>  H  ||    ________||                          ||    __  \\  //
> ________||    ____  \\
>  H  ||  ||______  __  ____  ______    ______  ||  ||__))  ||  ((______
> ||  ||    ||  ||
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> \\______;2HH  ||  ||      ||  ||  ||    ____//    ____//||  ||__))
> ||________))  ||  ||____||  ||
>
>  H  ||  ||      ||  ||  ||        ||        ||||          ||
> ||            ||
>  H  ||__||      ||__||
> \\______||\\______||||________//||__________//||__________//
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> ssttoopp
>
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>
> //bboooott//kkeerrnneell//kkeerrnneell  tteexxtt==00xxaa889988cc22
> ddaattaa==00xx3344aa8822cc++00xx6644ff99ddcc
> ssyymmss==[[00xx88++00xx110055118800++00xx88++00xx112222bb7755]]
>
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