Hi! I've got a nifty new server board with an IPMI card. The console-redirection over LAN is supposed to work for anything that uses DOS-style video modes or characters, i.e. no "graphics mode". In fact it works for the BIOS/boot*/loader and first kernel messages up to the point where the
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 line is printed out. Then the management software tells me that the system entered graphics mode, which it can't forward. Now, does anybode have an idea how to tell FreeBSD not to switch any graphics mode, i.e. keep that stupid plain printout of characters as the loader does? I would be very nice to do single-user mode installs that way. I've tried sc/vga with various options, but they don't help, I can't get further as the above timecounter line (I assume that's when the vga driver registers and tries to detect the vga). I'm currently using these options: options VGA_NO_FONT_LOADING # don't save/load font options VGA_NO_MODE_CHANGE # don't change video modes options VGA_SLOW_IOACCESS options SC_NO_FONT_LOADING none of them helps. When using pcvt, the boot messages scroll a bit futher, including the avail memory messages, but then stop, with the same message about graphics mode as above. Any workarounds? Anybody using IPMI console redirection over LAN and had success? Thanks & Ciao Alex _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
