Hi all, I'm trying to debug some issues I'm seeing during JumpStart caused by drivers in the sNVb125 kernel.
The hardware (IBM BladeCenter HS20)I'm using has the ability to redirect the serial console over what is called 'Serial Over LAN' (SOL) through the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC). At some point during booting for JumpStart (and maybe regular boots too I haven't been able to install yet) something that sNV does causes the SOL connection to the BMC to be dropped and the BMC to go into a state where it can't be reconnected. Anyway, I've tried booting with kernel args -kdv and setting moddebug to 0x80000000 to watch the modules load. That didn't give much insight, so as another test I decided to reconfigure the GRUB to not use the serial console at all, and instead use the VGA one. This test is what brings me here. When I didn't specify the serial console, JumpStart defaulted to trying to start X windows, and while the boot up still fails, it seems that the booting process has taken quite a different path through the code. So, is there some way to use the VGA console, but keep JumpStart from running X Windows, and just do a text Jumpstart on the VGA? -Kyle
