Re: [Freeipmi-users] ipmiconsole output non human-readable data on Tyan FT77AB7059

[Albert Chu]

Asked a guy in my hall for a guess.  He thinks it could be a baud rate
mismatch?  With serial over lan, the baud rate you put in the kernel, in
the bios, and configure via IPMI must all be the same.

Al

On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 19:29 +0400, Григорий Пташко wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I've got a problem with getting the human-readable output from ipmiconsole.
> I use it a lot during my expriments with PXE booting my servers.
> I've got two types of platforms: Supermicro and Tyan. On the Supermicro
> platform the command
> 
> $ ipmiconsole -h host -u user -p password
> 
> gives a completely human-readable output. But on the Tyan platform it gives
> the following (I'm attaching a screenshot, it's not big):
> 
> http://goo.gl/console=tty0q1oI63 <http://goo.gl/q1oI63>
> 
> My Tyan platform model is FT77AB7059. Here's its web page
> http://goo.gl/SzhjdB.
> 
> Using the standard JViewer that is shipped with the Tyan platform's BMC web
> interface is OK. I see human-readable output. But ipmiconsole show garbage.
> 
> Also, here's the kernel's cmdline for my PXE boot and the SERIAL option
> from the
> pxelinux.cfg/default. There are some serial properties that might help:
> 
> SERIAL 0 115200
> 
> APPEND xen.gz console=com0 com0=115200,8n1 --- bzImage ...
> console=ttyS0,115200n8 console=tty0  --- initrd.img
> 
> I've removed everything except the logging to console options.
> 
> What can be the problem for ipmiconsole?
> 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 
-- 
Albert Chu
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Computer Scientist
High Performance Systems Division
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory