On Wed, Dec 28, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Gary Mills <gary_mi...@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 11:01:43AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > > Try something like this to open a virtual console: > > ipmitool -I lanplus -H <hostname> -U<username> sol activate > > Thanks. That works nicely. The terminal emulation is a bit messed up > when running under gnome-terminal, but otherwise it's fine. > One thing that may help is enlarging your window to be 80x25 characters instead of 80x24. Remember that it's redirecting a PC text screen, and that's 80x25. Another thing that has sometimes worked for me is trying different terminal emulation options, e.g. VT102 vs. ANSI. > I haven't tried to configure OI for a serial console yet, so I can't > > help you with that, but this should help get you started. > > When GRUB starts the OS, I get the one-line banner on both consoles > but nothing after that on the remote console. The logging and the OS > login session appear only on the local console. It appears that the > BMI device stops redirecting when the OS begins using the VGA > interface. I haven't figured out how to get around that yet. > Yeah, once the OS loads the BMI probably loses control of the redirection. You'll need to figure out how to tell OI's kernel to use the serial port as a console, and I don't know how to do that. -- David Brodbeck System Administrator, Linguistics University of Washington _______________________________________________ OpenIndiana-discuss mailing list OpenIndiana-discuss@openindiana.org http://openindiana.org/mailman/listinfo/openindiana-discuss
