On Friday, August 05, 2016 09:24:01 AM Lavery, Benjamin wrote: > Good morning all, > > I have been given an old Dell PowerEdge chassis filled with PowerEdge 1955 > blades. I also have a FreeNAS which I'm using to serve DHCP addresses and > TFTP for PXE booting. > > I can get the blades to PXE boot (I'm using pxelinux to load > mfsbsd-10.3-RELEASE-amd64), but the serial redirection is only working for > the first part of the boot sequence. After select mfsBSD at the menu, I get > the following (verbose boot chosen at the boot menu): > > Loading memdisk... ok > ok > e820: 0000000000000000 00000000000a0000 1 > e820: 0000000000100000 00000000cfea8000 1 > e820: 00000000cffa8000 000000000000fc00 3 > e820: 00000000cffb7c00 0000000000048400 2 > Total size needed = 2513 bytes, allocating 3K > Old dos memory at 0x8a000 (map says 0xa0000), loading at 0x89400 > 1588: 0xffff 15E801: 0x3c00 0xcbba > INT 13 08: Success, count = 1, BPT = 0000:0000 > Drive probing gives drive shift limit: 0x82 > old: int13 = ca001da6 int15 = f000f859 int1e = f000efc7 > new: int13 = 8940000a int15 = 894003ba int1e = f000efc7 > Loading boot sector... booting... > /boot/config: -D > > FreeBSD/x86 boot > Default: 0:ad(0p2)/boot/loader > boot: > BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02 > console comconsole failed to initialize > Consoles: internal video/keyboard serial port > BIOS drive A: is disk0 > BIOS drive C: is disk1 > BIOS drive D: is disk2 > BIOS 549kB/3353216kB available memory > > FreeBSD/x86 bootstrap loader, Revision 1.1 > ([email protected], Fri Mar 25 02:04:38 UTC 2016) > \oading /boot/defaults/loader.conf > lapic3: Routing NMI -> LINT1 > lapic3: LINT1 trigger: edge > lapic3: LINT1 polarity: high > lapic7: Routing NMI -> LINT1 > lapic7: LINT1 trigger: edge > lapic7: LINT1 polarity: high > MADT: Interrupt override: source 0, irq 2 > ioapic0: Routing IRQ 0 -> intpin 2 > MADT: Interrupt override: source 9, irq 9 > ioapic0: intpin 9 trigger: level > ioapic0 <Version 2.0> irqs 0-23 on motherboard > ioapic1 <Version 2.0> irqs 32-55 on motherboard > ioapic2 <Version 2.0> irqs 192-215 on motherboard > cpu0 BSP: > ID: 0x00000000 VER: 0x00050014 LDR: 0x00000000 DFR: 0xffffffff > lint0: 0x00010700 lint1: 0x00000400 TPR: 0x00000000 SVR: 0x000001ff > timer: 0x000100ef therm: 0x00010000 err: 0x000000f0 pmc: 0x00010400 > wlan: <802.11 Link Layer> > snd_unit_init() u=0x00ff8000 [512] d=0x00007c00 [32] c=0x000003ff [1024] > feeder_register: snd_unit=-1 snd_maxautovchans=16 latency=5 > feeder_rate_min=1 fe > eder_rate_max=2016000 feeder_rate_round=25 > null: <null device, zero device> > nfslock: pseudo-device > ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ > > The odd glitch (▒) is me trying to input after output stops. I'm accessing > the console by TELNETing to the blade chassis, and connecting to the blade > console. I believe this runs at a baud rate of 57600. Because of this I've > modified the following files within mfsBSD: > > etc/ttys (from inside mfsroot.gz) > # Serial terminals > ttyu0 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" vt100 on secure > ttyu1 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" dialup on secure > ttyu2 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" vt100 off secure > ttyu3 "/usr/libexec/getty std.57600" vt100 off secure > # Dumb console > dcons "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600" vt100 off secure > > boot/loader.conf > boot_multicons="YES" > boot_serial="YES" > comconsole_speed="57600" > console="comconsole" > > The Java console from the chassis web interface doesn't work on my laptop, > but via another server I've been able to grab the attached screenshot. It > states: > getty[706]: open /dev/ttyu0: No such file or directory
Seems like it doesn't find any uartX devices during boot. Can you boot the box without the console in such a way that you can ssh into it and get a copy of the dmesg? -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
