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

[Steven Hartland]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "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.

According to the handbook, where I got the settings from, 0x20:
"Forces this unit to be the console (unless there is another higher priority console),
regardless of the -h option discussed below. The flag 0x20 must be used together with
the 0x10 flag."

    Regards
    Steve

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