Re: all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal - SOLVED (sort of)

2012-10-03 Thread Bjørn Mork
Miles Fidelman writes: > well, it turns out that the installer, when accessed over a remote > serial connection, forgets its kernel options when going into rescue > mode > > i.e.: > boot: CR #works just fine > boot: rescue CR # fails miserably > boot: rescue console=ttyS2,115200n8 #works just fin

Re: all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal

2012-10-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Phillip, Thanks! (more below, inline) Philipp Kern wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:10:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: The thing is, that the serial terminal is rather crippled - some things seem to get recognized, others not (function keys are particularly problematic, though that might be

Re: all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal

2012-10-02 Thread Philipp Kern
On Tue, Oct 02, 2012 at 03:10:48PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > The thing is, that the serial terminal is rather crippled - some > things seem to get recognized, others not (function keys are > particularly problematic, though that might be the Mac term > program). You might want to try xterm wi

Re: all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal - SOLVED (sort of)

2012-10-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
well, it turns out that the installer, when accessed over a remote serial connection, forgets its kernel options when going into rescue mode i.e.: boot: CR #works just fine boot: rescue CR # fails miserably boot: rescue console=ttyS2,115200n8 #works just fine (now to wrestle with whatever it is

Re: all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal

2012-10-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
A little more info: Miles Fidelman wrote: Hi Folks, Not getting a lot of help on debian-user, so thought I might raise this here. I've been trying to build a headless server, remotely, using the netboot installer (PXEboot) and a serial-over-ip terminal provided by the motherboard's (Superm

all kinds of problems installing with IPMI serial-over-IP terminal

2012-10-02 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, Not getting a lot of help on debian-user, so thought I might raise this here. I've been trying to build a headless server, remotely, using the netboot installer (PXEboot) and a serial-over-ip terminal provided by the motherboard's (Supermicro X8SIE-LN4F) on-board IPMI BMC. The th