[OpenIndiana-discuss] hipster serial console via IPMI

[Gary Mills]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 06:15:15PM +0000, Carsten John wrote:
> 
> I'm struggeling to get serial over lan via IPMI on Supermicro
> mainboards running with hipster.
> 
> As long as OI used grub I had a working setup.
> 
> After moving to BootForth this does not work any more.
> 
> The recipe at http://docs.openindiana.org/handbook/common-tasks/
> does not work for me.

I have a system with a Supermicro motherboard and another with a Tyan
motherboard.  Both have a VGA device that converts text to serial,
with a separate ethernet port dedicated to this device.  I use ipmitool
running on a third system to connect to these ethernet ports.  Is that
similar to what you have?

It shouldn't matter what operating system is running on the Supermicro
system, at least for BIOS output.  Do you get that output?  Once the OS
boots, it configures ttya and ttyb for I/O on the hardware serial ports.
Putting the console on ttyc might solve your problems.


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