Re: [Ipmitool-devel] How can I view the grub menu in a SOL session?

[Erez Z. <erezz@Voltaire.COM>]

I still get the same result. Here's the current menu.lst file:

default 0
timeout 8
#gfxmenu (hd1,4)/boot/message

serial --unit=0 --speed=3D38400 --word=3D8 --parity=3Dno --stop=3D1=20
terminal --timeout=3D10 serial console

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title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP1
root (hd1,4)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.46-0.12-smp
root=/dev/disk/by-id/scsi-SATA_HDS728080PLA380_PFDB32E8TSKESM-part5
vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2 showopts console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.16.46-0.12-smp

Any idea?

Thanks,
Erez

Cress, Andrew R wrote:
> I do see two things wrong in your  menu.lst:
> serial --unit=2 ...
> ...
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2
> splash=silent showopts console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0
>
> First, unit=2 means COM3  (unit=0,1,2), and this conflicts with console=ttyS0 meaning COM1.
> Pick the correct port for both.
> Second, you need to remove the splash=silent
>
> Andy
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Erez Zilber [mailto:erezz@Voltaire.COM] 
> Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2007 5:22 AM
> To: Song, Youquan
> Cc: Cress, Andrew R; David A. Ranch; ipm...@li...
> Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] How can I view the grub menu in a SOL session?
>
> Thanks for your response. I tried to use many values for --unit (and
> removed gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message), but I still don't see the grub
> menu. Instead, I see something like:
>
> machine restart
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> Processor #4 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x02] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x03] lapic_id[0x05] enabled)
> Processor #5 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x04] lapic_id[0x02] enabled)
> Processor #2 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x05] lapic_id[0x06] enabled)
> Processor #6 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x06] lapic_id[0x03] enabled)
> Processor #3 6:15 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x07] lapic_id[0x07] enabled)
>
> BTW - I am able to see the outputs sent by the kernel when the machine
> boots. The grub entry seems like:
>
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2
> splash=silent showopts console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0
>
> I am also able to see kernel output later. This is done by the following
> line in /etc/inittab: S0:2345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 38400 ttyS0 vt100
>
> Should I change any other parameter in menu.lst?
>
> Currently, it looks like:
>
> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Nov 27 13:32:05 UTC 2007
> color white/blue black/light-gray
> default
> timeout 8
> #gfxmenu (hd1,1)/boot/message
>
> serial --unit=2 --speed=3D38400 --word=3D8 --parity=3Dno --stop=3D1=20
> terminal --timeout=3D10 serial console
>
> ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
> title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10
> root (hd1,1)
> kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb2 vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2
> splash=silent showopts console=ttyS0,38400 console=tty0
> initrd /boot/initrd
>
> Thanks,
> Erez
>
> ...
>
> Song, Youquan wrote:
>   
>> 1) disable  #gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
>> 2) Maybe you can try to try:  serial --unit=1 or 0 or 2
>> 3)  Braud rate console=ttyS0,38400  -> console=ttyS0,38400n8  or 19200n8
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Song Youquan
>> OTC-Beijing
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Erez Zilber [mailto:erezz@Voltaire.COM] 
>> Sent: 2007年11月21日 16:42
>> To: Song, Youquan
>> Cc: Cress, Andrew R; David A. Ranch; ipm...@li...
>> Subject: Re: [Ipmitool-devel] How can I view the grub menu in a SOL session?
>>
>> I tried to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst:
>>
>> # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Nov 20 19:15:00 IST 2007
>> default 0
>> timeout 8
>> gfxmenu (hd0,0)/boot/message
>>
>> serial --unit=3D1 --speed=3D19200 --word=3D8 --parity=3Dno --stop=3D1=20
>> terminal --timeout=3D10 serial console
>> title SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 - 2.6.24-rc3-infiniband
>>     root (hd0,0)
>>     kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-rc3-infiniband-smp root=/dev/sda1 
>> vga=0x314 resume=/dev/sda2  splash=silent showopts console=ttyS0,38400 
>> console=tty0
>>     initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.24-rc3-infiniband-smp
>>
>> I'm running the ipmitool with the following parameters:
>>
>> ipmitool -H 172.30.112.2 -U admin -P admin -I lanplus  sol activate
>>
>> I still don't see the grub menu. Did I miss anything?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Erez
>>   
>>