Re: Booting Xen/ia64

[Andreas Hirstius <Andreas.Hirstius@cern.ch>]

Hi,

On our boxes the access to the serial console is done via the management 
processor, so the baud rate is limited to 9600 :-(
If this a problem, I can use another serial port on the machine.

One of the firmware versions might be a problem, since the machine is 
quite old (more than 2 years).
But the latest available firmware (2.31) is installed...
Here is a dump of "info fw" in the EFI shell:


FIRMWARE INFORMATION

   Firmware Revision: 2.31 [4411]

   PAL_A Revision: 7.31/5.37
   PAL_B Revision: 5.65

   SAL Spec Revision: 3.01
   SAL_A Revision: 2.00
   SAL_B Revision: 2.31

   EFI Spec Revision: 1.10
   EFI Intel Drop Revision: 14.61
   EFI Build Revision: 1.22

   POSSE Revision: 0.10

   ACPI Revision: 7.00

   BMC Revision 1.52
   IPMI Revision: 1.00
   SMBIOS Revision: 2.3.2a
   Management Processor Revision: E.02.10


With standard Linux the output goes to both consoles, except the part 
where the services start up.


Andreas

Magenheimer, Dan (HP Labs Fort Collins) wrote:

>>This is on both serial and video. And yes, "root=/dev/sda2" 
>>works with standard Linux.
>>
>>It's an rx2600.
>>    
>>
>
>Hmmm... mysterious.  This is the same box I am using and the
>same bits.  Perhaps a baud rate problem on the serial port?
>The hack I mentioned assumes 115200.  (This can be configured
>via the EFI shell.)  When I am running Linux, I use
>"console=ttyS0,115200" but I don't know if specifying a
>different baud rate for Xen/ia64 will work (yet).
>
>Otherwise could be different firmware versions, but one wouldn't
>expect that to cause this kind of a problem.
>
>When you boot real Linux with the same console= are you getting
>boot output on the VGA display?
>
>Dan
>
>  
>


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