SuperMicro IPMI/SOL and ipmitool troubles

[Andreas Nilsson]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:45 PM, Andreas Nilsson <andrnils at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 8:29 PM, Dmitry Morozovsky <marck at rinet.ru> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 11 Nov 2014, Paul Mather wrote:
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>> > > I'm trying to set up sol console for supermicro servers, reading some
>> documents
>> >
>> > Aye, and there's the rub: I've found that the COM port that SOL uses
>> > varies across different Supermicro server models, and the BIOS support
>> > for assigning or determining the COM port differs (or is sometimes
>> > nonexistent) between those servers. :-(
>> >
>> > I recently spent quite a bit of time trying to figure out why SOL was
>> > not working on a particular Supermicro server and it turned out to be
>> > that the COM port differed to those I'd used in previous setups.
>>
>> Yes, at least on X8SIE your hint works, swithing to com3 with
>>
>> # SOL console
>> boot_multicons="yes"
>> boot_serial="YES"
>> console="comconsole vidconsole"
>> # com3 is ipmi/sol console
>> comconsole_port="0x3E8"
>> comconsole_speed="115200"
>>
>> works, thanks a lot!
>>
>> Still fighting microcloud blades...
>>
>> Next thing will be consolidation all these into conserver-com for both
>> logging
>> and centralized management...
>>
>>
>> --
>> Sincerely,
>> D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
>> [ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> *** Dmitry Morozovsky --- D.Marck --- Wild Woozle --- marck at rinet.ru ***
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>
> Well,
>
> I just performed my upgrade from 9.2 to 9.3 and now serial does not work
> anymore, so something funky is going on.
>
> I made sure to copy both the loader.conf and ttys file just to be sure. I
> see the loader loading modules, but as soon as kernel takes over serial
> console goes quiet :/
>
> Best Regards
> Andreas
>

Some more data points:
The difference between working and non-working serial console are one
single line in loader.conf:
hw.uart.console=1234

loader.conf looks like:

zfs_load="YES"

geom_mirror_load="YES"

ipfw_load="YES"

ipmi_load="YES"

coretemp_load="YES"

beastie_disable="YES"

boot_serial="YES"

boot_multicons="YES"

console="comconsole,vidconsole"


hint.uart.0.port="0x3E8"

hint.uart.0.irq="10"

hw.uart.console="1234"

hint.acpi_throttle.0.disbled=1

net.inet.ip.fw.default_to_accept=1

Best regards
Andreas