Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-21 Thread Ian Smith
On Fri, 19 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:14:44 pm Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote:

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-19 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 19/11/2010 05:14 Ian Smith said the following: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that exist even

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-19 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 10:14:44 pm Ian Smith wrote: On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread John Baldwin
On Wednesday, November 17, 2010 7:46:38 pm Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:13 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi Alexandre, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote:

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Reilly
Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that exist even if they failed to attach. Try just using 'devinfo' and seeing if est1 still shows up. OK, you're right: running without -v shows only est0: nexus0 apic0 ram0 acpi0

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 07:41:02PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Tuesday 16 November 2010 06:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:36:16PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: You may try sysctl hw.acpi.handle_reboot=1. If it works, just add it in /etc/sysctl.conf. FYI, it is

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread John Baldwin
On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that exist even if they failed to attach. Try just using 'devinfo' and seeing if est1 still shows up. OK, you're right:

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-18 Thread Ian Smith
On Thu, 18 Nov 2010, John Baldwin wrote: On Thursday, November 18, 2010 4:07:27 pm Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi John, On 18/11/2010, at 23:59 , John Baldwin wrote: You used devinfo -v, so it shows the devices that exist even if they failed to attach. Try just using

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:42:15PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I'm used to seeing est either attach to both CPUs, or fail to attach to either CPU. Here it's attached to cpu0, but not to cpu1. Is that odd? It seems odd, but since I don't know what est does (there isn't a man page), I'm not sure

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:06 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:42:15PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I'm used to seeing est either attach to both CPUs, or fail to attach to either CPU. Here it's attached to cpu0, but not to cpu1. Is that odd? It seems odd, but since I

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:26:56PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:06 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:42:15PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I'm used to seeing est either attach to both CPUs, or fail to attach to either CPU. Here it's

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:26:56PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:06 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 01:42:15PM +1100, Ian Smith wrote: I'm used to seeing est either attach to

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Andrew Reilly
Hi Alexandre, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location: handle=\_PR_.CPU0 dev.cpu.0.%pnpinfo: _HID=none _UID=0

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Thomas Steen Rasmussen
On 15-11-2010 05:55, Andrew Reilly wrote: Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at something like Stopping other CPUs forever. Andrew, No solution for you

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko
On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:13 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi Alexandre, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI CPU dev.cpu.0.%driver: cpu dev.cpu.0.%location:

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-17 Thread Ian Smith
On Wed, 17 Nov 2010, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 11:13 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi Alexandre, On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 06:56:53PM -0500, Alexandre Sunny Kovalenko wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 10:40 +1100, Andrew Reilly wrote: dev.cpu.0.%desc: ACPI

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-16 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at something like Stopping other CPUs forever. I assume that

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-16 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:36:16PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-16 Thread Jung-uk Kim
On Tuesday 16 November 2010 06:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 06:36:16PM -0500, Jung-uk Kim wrote: On Sunday 14 November 2010 11:55 pm, Andrew Reilly wrote: Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start it, have to power down and then manually hit the

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-16 Thread Ian Smith
On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Andrew Reilly wrote: Hi there, [..] Oh: the other thing about this system: I can't warm-start it, have to power down and then manually hit the power-on button. Attempting to reboot leaves the console sitting at something like Stopping other CPUs forever. I assume

Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Reilly
Hi there, I've replaced my old desktop with a laptop and a server, which is mostly working great. Naturally, the server is running FreeBSD-stable. It's built on an intel i3 MiniITX motherboard that has lots of SATA sockets, a respectable number of USB sockets, gigabit ethernet, eSATA, DVI, ...

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Andriy Gapon
on 15/11/2010 06:55 Andrew Reilly said the following: Hi there, I've replaced my old desktop with a laptop and a server, which is mostly working great. Naturally, the server is running FreeBSD-stable. It's built on an intel i3 MiniITX motherboard that has lots of SATA sockets, a

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Reilly
It's been suggested that I make the output of dmidecode (from ports/sysutils), pciconf -lv and dmesg.boot available, to help answer my previosu question. Since all of that output is relatively small and I don't really have a good web site to put it, I'll just include it, below. Hope this helps!

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 10:52:10AM +0200, Andriy Gapon wrote: If I find a USB-to-RS232 dongle, will the console mechanism be able to find it? I worry that only legacy-16550-ish serial ports need apply. Any other possibilities or common practices? Is there a firewire port? I'm

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Bob Bishop
Hi, Your board has a serial port: [stuff deleted] /var/run/dmesg.boot: Copyright (c) 1992-2010 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Mark Blackman
Bob Bishop wrote: Hi, Your board has a serial port: [...more stuff deleted...] uart0:16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] [etc] The diagram on page 12 of http://downloadmirror.intel.com/18702/eng/DH57JG_ProductGuide03_English.pdf shows the

Re: Console options for legacy-free mini-itx server?

2010-11-15 Thread Andrew Reilly
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 12:03:38PM +, Bob Bishop wrote: Your board has a serial port: [...more stuff deleted...] uart0: 16550 or compatible port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0 uart0: [FILTER] [etc] Ha! I'd not noticed that. Wasn't looking for it, I guess. The diagram on