Okay, let me try to be even clearer :)
- If I set the bios to always, this results in weird data on the terminal.
(hence my first question: can I use always in the bios for impi output,
which apperently I can't)
- If I set the bios to boatloader only and openbsd in boot.conf tty to com1:
(com0 is the normal com port in this specific type of mobo it seems)
: I don't see the kernel output but DO get a login prompt after the
system is booted (so my question here is: could this be an ascii related
output/translation problem)
: The system won't boot beyond the bootloader if I don't have the
ipmitool enabled and listening during boottime. (my last question: can this
be normal?)
My boot.conf.bak looks like:
stty com1 19200
set tty com1
And this works fine, but only while listening on the impi interface while
booting and it doesn't display the kernel output:
- is this because of ascii translation troubles in the ipmi protocol
implementation?
- or can't the kernel console redirect to the com port while initializing
hardware (and is the what bsd is doing while outputting the blue text)?
My 2 solutions I've come up with are, but that's where I'm stuck.
- Switch in and out the boot.conf whenever I need it and am sure I can use
the impitool to listen when the system reboots.
- Buy a KVM.
Sorry, it's actually quite a few questions packed together, hence I can't
figure it out...
-----Original Message-----
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Henning Brauer
Sent: zaterdag 15 maart 2008 15:41
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: FW: dmesg default color
* Erwin van Maanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-15 15:30]:
> - If I set the bios to boatloader only and openbsd in boot.conf tty to
com1:
> : I don't see the kernel output
what a surprise. you want com0.
> (or is this a ascii related output problem)
forget about that finally
> : The system won't boot beyond the bootloader if I don't have the
> ipmitool enabled and listening during boottime.
that is totally weird. sounds like daramatically fucked hardware/bios.
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