mike wrote:
The problem is with the GRUB configuration for a serial port. If I
reboot a machine and have a SOL console connected, the machine reboots
fine. But if I don't have a SOL console connected, the machine sits at the
grub menu waiting for me to select a boot option. It completely ignores the
timeout value in the configuration.
This may not be useful, but here's a snippet of a grub.conf (CentOS)
from a Sun V65x with Intel IPMI that works for me.
default=0
timeout=5
#splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
#hiddenmenu
serial --unit=1 --speed=9600 --word=8 --parity=n --stop=1
terminal --timeout=5 --dumb --silent serial console
title CentOS (2.6.18-8.el5)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5 ro root=/dev/md1 norhgb quiet
console=tty0 console=ttyS1,9600
initrd /initrd-2.6.18-8.el5.img
That boots fine whether there's a console attached or not, but my
hardware is different enough that I don't know if that helps. And it's
been WAY too many years since I came up with that to know if I ever had
the same problem.
FWIW,
Barry
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