Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread Corey Minyard
Andy Cress wrote: > Carsten, > > In your grub.conf, do you have "console=ttyS1,19200n8" or similar on the > kernel parameters line? > You also generally need an "r" at the end of that to use rts/cts flow control, otherwise it will drop characters. Like: "console=ttyS1,19200n8r" And you need t

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Andy Cress wrote: > Carsten, > > In your grub.conf, do you have "console=ttyS1,19200n8" or similar on the > kernel parameters line? > Also check the kernel parameters to make sure that "rhgb" or similar has > been removed so that it isn't trying to send graphics to the serial > console. > Ty

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread Andy Cress
riginal Message- From: Carsten Aulbert [mailto:carsten.aulb...@aei.mpg.de] Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 12:30 PM To: Mike Lovell Cc: ipmitool-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot Hi Mike, Mike Lovell wrote: > Check your /etc/in

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread Steffen Grunewald
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 01:34:50PM +0100, Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi James, > > James Pearson wrote: > > > > Does the SOL share the same network interface as used by the OS? I've > > see cases where SOL will be dropped when the OS loads/uses the NIC driver. > > > > On dual NIC machines, we use

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi James, James Pearson wrote: > > Does the SOL share the same network interface as used by the OS? I've > see cases where SOL will be dropped when the OS loads/uses the NIC driver. > > On dual NIC machines, we use the 2nd NIC for the OS and leave the first > NIC for IPMI Yes, that could be the

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-09 Thread James Pearson
Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi all, > > another question just waited for us in the darkness and jumped right > into our faces. When we boot a machine we cannot follow the boot process > through the end but it just stops at some point and we have no idea why. > Can anyone enlighten us please? > > Che

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-08 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi Mike, Mike Lovell wrote: > Check your /etc/inittab. It should have a line that is something like this > > T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 19200 vt100 > > It looks like the kernel is using the serial port for the console but > there isn't a getty running on it. So give that line in inittab

Re: [Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-08 Thread Mike Lovell
Carsten Aulbert wrote: > Hi all, > > another question just waited for us in the darkness and jumped right > into our faces. When we boot a machine we cannot follow the boot process > through the end but it just stops at some point and we have no idea why. > Can anyone enlighten us please? > > Boot

[Ipmitool-devel] Q about SOL during linux kernel boot

2009-01-07 Thread Carsten Aulbert
Hi all, another question just waited for us in the darkness and jumped right into our faces. When we boot a machine we cannot follow the boot process through the end but it just stops at some point and we have no idea why. Can anyone enlighten us please? Cheers Carsten Boot line: append root=/