Re: Trying to boot a supermicro H8DMT board

Moin!

Looks like boolloader select comconsole as primary output instead of local framebuffer.

try to play with loader settings

console=“vidconsole”
or
conlole=“efi” (with uefi boot)

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Dima. (desktop, kde, x11, office, ports-secteam)@FreeBSD team
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> On Friday, Jan 14, 2022 at 2:08 PM, Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl (mailto:wjw@digiware.nl)> 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.
>
> Thanx,
> --WjW
>
>