On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:40:31PM -0800, Paul B. Henson wrote: > On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 09:54:41AM +0100, Sebastian Benoit wrote: > > > in the bios, you can set the onboard serial ports irq to some higher value. > > that way, the ipmi console will become com0. > > > > (not tried on that board, only on newer supermicros that dont have the > > serial port on the outside anymore). > > Hmm, no joy. I tried disabling both the physical serial ports, but the > SOL port stayed on the com2 ioport/irq. That completely broke the > bootloader, as it showed only com0, and when I told it to use it > presumably it tried the standard com0 ioport/irq. I tried setting the > bios to use the com1 ioport/irq for com0 and the com2 for com1 in the > hopes the SOL port would notice their was a conflict and use something > else, but nope, it still didn't work. I don't see anyway to set the SOL > port ioport/irq, I fear it's hardcoded. > > It's weird that the kernel uses com2 as a console fine but then userland > borks it. The SOL port works fine as a console when I boot linux on the > box, so either there's an openbsd bug with it or linux must be > implementing some workaround for a problem. > > Thanks anyway...
Supermicro IPMI is crap. Use normal serial console and add a power strip which you can manage via ethernet to poweroff/power cycle the server. jirib
