Alright, I'll just change the bootorder in the BIOS if something goes horribly wrong.
Except I was really hoping to use the IMPI card to monitor the blue output of OpenBSD too for when doing kernel updates and rebooting if something goes wrong. And if I understand you correctly, that data will probably never be sent over IPMI since that is when BSD probes the hardware... Guess I'll have to save up for a KVM :) -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henning Brauer Sent: zaterdag 15 maart 2008 12:25 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: dmesg default color * Erwin van Maanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-15 10:22]: > I'd like to add a (somewhat) related question to that. > Working with an IMPI card in a server, the BIOS has an option where > you can keep redirecting keyboard/screen output in 3 options: > - Only BIOS / BOOTLOADER / Always > > But the option always doesn't work. always never works :) > It looks like the blue colored screen sends out all kinds of ASCII > color codes or something. I get all kinds of messed up data on the > terminal i highly doubt that is related in any way. the bios level serial redirections are all shitty crap. some are at least somewhat useable. most fuck up your terminal. so, what happens: the bios "just" has hooks in the i/o routines to do serial. any half modern OS does not use the bios once booted, but probes hardware itself and talks to it directly. so that "always" option is pretty useless (unless you want to waste electricity on running DOS). > (IPMItool or the software which comes with the motherboard). I've read > up on this and found out I need to tell OpenBSD to redirect the > console (in a boot.conf file for example), this works great. yes. that is the way to go. bios redirection until bootloader, then boot.conf. usually works. -- Henning Brauer, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] BS Web Services, http://bsws.de Full-Service ISP - Secure Hosting, Mail and DNS Services Dedicated Servers, Rootservers, Application Hosting - Hamburg & Amsterdam
