On 14-1-2022 12:26, Gary Palmer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 12:06:25PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
On 14-1-2022 11:44, Gary Palmer wrote:
On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:27:06AM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
Hi,
I was given these SMC h8DMT boards to experiment with.
(For liquid cooling)
Theze are server board that normally go into twin board systems.
2 Opteron 2380 per board.
It sort of boots, and gets to:
?????? Beasty loader
?????? then booting the kernel after the spinner
???? prints the first few lines of boot output, like what compilers is used
???? and then output stops.
I guess that it thinks it needs to write the rest to either serial console
or something else.
Does this sound familiar to anybody?
What do I need to toggle to keep writing where it started?
What version of FreeBSD are you using?
I tried both 12.2 and 13.0 (both RELEASE)
with similar effects.
You can try going to the command prompt from the Beastie menu and
putting in
console="comconsole"
comconsole_speed="115200"
(replace the speed on 2nd line as appropriate to match the speed the board
used prior to the kernel loading)
'mmm I would expect output then to go into the serial port, which is not
connected.
(I'd have to see if there is flatcable thingy somewhere here.)
But I'll give it a try anyways.
and seeing if that helps.
Note that the board has a VGA output that I'm using.
It also has an IPMI board, but that does not connect to the network whatever
I try.
So I've taken that out, but still the output went into thin air.
Apologies, I thought you were using comconsole.
Just as info:
As soon is I type 'set console="comconsole"' my input has gone...
Not possible to set the linespeed after that, only it still accepts keyboard
but does not echo to VGA.
So I guess the order has to be the other way around: set speed and then
swithc console.
console="vidconsole"
This is the default if I show the loader options.
or
console="efi"
if the board has EFI, may work better. Not sure if H8DMT has EFI or not
It is a 2004 bios, I guess not EFI.
Did not find it in any of the bios settings.
I have the feeling that one way or another the kernel thinks that:
it should no longer write to the VGA videobuffer
Or that some settings disable the video output.
--WjW
