IPMI console [Re: Chicken and egg, encrypted root FS on remote server]

[Daniel O'Connor]

On 21/02/2013, at 9:06, "Steven Hartland" <killing at multiplay.co.uk> wrote:
>> If I change the console redirect to com1, my screen stays blank.  Would
>> you perhaps know how to use com1 for redirect and connect to it using
>> ipmi-console (or ipmi-tool)?
> 
> We use the following on Supermicro servers works fine:-
> http://blog.multiplay.co.uk/2012/12/freebsd-serial-over-lan/


Nice!

BTW do you know what flag 0x20 does for UART? 0x10 is documented but 0x20 is not.

I had a quick look at the code and AFAIK it doesn't do anything (on 9.1 anyway).

Actually at a guess I would say it's a hangover from sio(4) where 0x20 forced the device in question to be the console.

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