On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Rob Foster wrote: > found this about some tyan motherboard, which is not what we have in > the blade but.. > > > One of my mail to the support: > > But I try three things: > > 1) redirect BIOS to serial port: OK > > 2) redirect kernel to serial port: OK > > 3) redirect both BIOS and kernel to serial port: problem. > > > > In the case 3) I get all the message from the BIOS, I can manage it, > > but when the kernel boots, the kernel sends nothing to the serial port > > if the serial port was already used by the BIOS. > > So I suppose that the BIOS does not release the serial port, before > > the kernel boots. > > The answer from TYAN: > > I used Red Hat 9 and was able to redirect both the BIOS and RH 9 at > > the same > > time. > > > is this true? how can I work around this?
Just for you I rebooted one of my OpenBSD RLX blades, hit F2 at the RAM test. Here is the screenshot of my serial console: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Console Redirection | Item Specific Help | |----------------------------------------------------+-------------------------| | | | | Local Console: [On] | Turn ON local console | | Baud Rate [9600] | redirection for video | | Console Type [VT100] | output to local serial | | Flow Control [None] | port. | | Continue C.R. after POST: [On] | Turn OFF to disable | | | this feature. | | Remote Console Role: [Client] | | | Remote Console: [On] | WARNING: Turn OFF | | | console redirection | | | prevents you from | | | viewing video output | | | for navigation during | | | boot process or BIOS | | | setup. | | | | | | | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ F1 Help ^v Select Item -/+ Change Values F9 Setup Defaults Esc Exit < Select Menu Enter Select > Sub-Menu F10 Save and Exit And I verified that I'm runnint a non-standard boot loader, notice the "set ktty" variable. However since you've set ever thing in boot.conf it should work. Using drive 0, partition 3. Loading... probing: pc0 com0 apm mem[618K 1022M a20=on] disk: hd0+ hd1+* >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.06 Sat Jun 11 22:57:55 2005 com0: 9600 baud kernel console will be com0 boot> set >> OpenBSD/i386 BOOT 2.06 addr 0x0 howto device hd0a tty pc0 ktty com0 image /obsd timeout 6 boot> mmmmm
