Re: Serial over LAN console stops printing

From: micah milano
Date: Mon Oct 25 2004 - 13:38:27 EST


When booting with apic=off, the console prints a little bit more,
before it stops:

ta, 208k init, 130496k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5521.40 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.
Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... done.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
CPU0: Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz stepping 05
per-CPU timeslice cutoff: 1462.65 usecs.
task migration cache decay timeout: 2 msecs.
enabled ExtINT on CPU#0
ESR value before enabling vector: 00000000
ESR value after enabling vector: 00000000
Booting processor 1/1 eip 2000


Booting with kernel option "noapic" gives:

ta, 208k init, 130496k highmem)
Checking if this processor honours the WP bit even in supervisor mode... Ok.
Calibrating delay loop... 5521.40 BogoMIPS
Dentry cache hash table entries: 131072 (order: 7, 524288 bytes)
Inode-cache hash table entries: 65536 (order: 6, 262144 bytes)
Mount-cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 4096 bytes)
CPU: Trace cache: 12K uops, L1 D cache: 8K
CPU: L2 cache: 512K
CPU: L3 cache: 1024K
CPU: Physical Processor ID: 0
Intel machine check architecture supported.
Intel machine check reporting enabled on CPU#0.
CPU0: Intel P4/Xeon Extended MCE MSRs (12) available
CPU0: Thermal monitoring enabled
Enabling fast FPU save and restore... done.

On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 12:38:50 -0500, micah milano <micaho@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I've got an IPMI 1.5 card from SuperMicro (so it has the backported
> IBM serial over lan capability that is normally in 2.0) in a X5DPR-TP+
> motherboard with a single P4 HT Xeon CPU. Using kernel 2.4.25 I am
> able to utilize the serial over lan console of the IPMI card without
> problems (I can see the bootup all the way to the login). However,
> with a 2.6.7 kernel, the console ceases to print right after
> "Initializing CPU#0"... I've been searching the list and the web all
> weekend trying to figure out what is going on, but most of the
> problems people have had that are similar relate to failing to
> configure VGA_CONSOLE, but as you'll see, that is not the case in my
> config (config attached to this message):
>
> # CONFIG_NETCONSOLE is not set
> CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_HW_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_SERIAL_CORE_CONSOLE=y
> CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y
> # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set
> CONFIG_DUMMY_CONSOLE=y
>
> The machine boots all the way up, but that is not visible on the console.
>
> Here is everything I see on the console:
>
> ACPI: LAPIC (acpi_id[0x01] lapic_id[0x01] enabled)
> Processor #1 15:2 APIC version 20
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x00] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: LAPIC_NMI (acpi_id[0x01] high edge lint[0x1])
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x02] address[0xfec00000] global_irq_base[0x0])
> IOAPIC[0]: Assigned apic_id 2
> IOAPIC[0]: apic_id 2, version 32, address 0xfec00000, GSI 0-23
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x03] address[0xfec80000] global_irq_base[0x18])
> IOAPIC[1]: Assigned apic_id 3
> IOAPIC[1]: apic_id 3, version 32, address 0xfec80000, GSI 24-47
> ACPI: IOAPIC (id[0x04] address[0xfec80400] global_irq_base[0x30])
> IOAPIC[2]: Assigned apic_id 4
> IOAPIC[2]: apic_id 4, version 32, address 0xfec80400, GSI 48-71
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 0 global_irq 2 high edge)
> ACPI: INT_SRC_OVR (bus 0 bus_irq 9 global_irq 9 high level)
> Enabling APIC mode: Flat. Using 3 I/O APICs
> Using ACPI (MADT) for SMP configuration information
> Built 1 zonelists
> Kernel command line: root=/dev/md0 ro
> Initializing CPU#0
>
> Here is what is in my dmseg immediately after boot (note: the first
> part of ACPI is cut off in the dmesg as well):
>
> I: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKE] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *5
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKF] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKG] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Link [LNKH] (IRQs 3 10 11 14 15) *0, disabled.
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.ICH3._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HLB_.PH2A._PRT]
> ACPI: PCI Interrupt Routing Table [\_SB_.PCI0.HLB_.PH2B._PRT]
> SCSI subsystem initialized
> 00:00:1f[A] -> 2-18 -> IRQ 18 level low
> 00:00:1f[B] -> 2-17 -> IRQ 17 level low
> 00:00:1d[A] -> 2-16 -> IRQ 16 level low
> 00:00:1d[B] -> 2-19 -> IRQ 19 level low
> 00:03:01[A] -> 3-0 -> IRQ 24 level low
> 00:03:01[B] -> 3-1 -> IRQ 25 level low
> 00:03:01[C] -> 3-2 -> IRQ 26 level low
> 00:03:01[D] -> 3-3 -> IRQ 27 level low
> 00:02:01[A] -> 4-0 -> IRQ 48 level low
> 00:02:01[B] -> 4-1 -> IRQ 49 level low
> 00:02:01[C] -> 4-2 -> IRQ 50 level low
> 00:02:01[D] -> 4-3 -> IRQ 51 level low
> 00:02:02[A] -> 4-4 -> IRQ 52 level low
> 00:02:02[B] -> 4-5 -> IRQ 53 level low
> 00:02:03[A] -> 4-6 -> IRQ 54 level low
> 00:02:03[B] -> 4-7 -> IRQ 55 level low
> number of MP IRQ sources: 15.
> number of IO-APIC #2 registers: 24.
> number of IO-APIC #3 registers: 24.
> number of IO-APIC #4 registers: 24.
> testing the IO APIC.......................
> IO APIC #2......
> .... register #00: 02008000
> ....... : physical APIC id: 02
> ....... : Delivery Type: 1
> ....... : LTS : 0
> .... register #01: 00178020
> ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> ....... : PRQ implemented: 1
> ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
> .... register #02: 00000000
> ....... : arbitration: 00
> .... register #03: 00000001
> ....... : Boot DT : 1
> .... IRQ redirection table:
> NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
> 00 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 01 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 39
> 02 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 31
> 03 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 41
> 04 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 49
> 05 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 51
> 06 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 59
> 07 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 61
> 08 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 69
> 09 003 03 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 71
> 0a 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 79
> 0b 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 81
> 0c 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 89
> 0d 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 91
> 0e 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 99
> 0f 003 03 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 A1
> 10 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B9
> 11 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 B1
> 12 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 A9
> 13 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C1
> 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> IO APIC #3......
> .... register #00: 03000000
> ....... : physical APIC id: 03
> ....... : Delivery Type: 0
> ....... : LTS : 0
> .... register #01: 00178020
> ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> ....... : PRQ implemented: 1
> ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
> .... register #02: 03000000
> ....... : arbitration: 03
> .... register #03: 00000001
> ....... : Boot DT : 1
> .... IRQ redirection table:
> NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
> 00 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 C9
> 01 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D1
> 02 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 D9
> 03 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E1
> 04 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 05 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 06 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 07 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> IO APIC #4......
> .... register #00: 04000000
> ....... : physical APIC id: 04
> ....... : Delivery Type: 0
> ....... : LTS : 0
> .... register #01: 00178020
> ....... : max redirection entries: 0017
> ....... : PRQ implemented: 1
> ....... : IO APIC version: 0020
> .... register #02: 04000000
> ....... : arbitration: 04
> .... register #03: 00000001
> ....... : Boot DT : 1
> .... IRQ redirection table:
> NR Log Phy Mask Trig IRR Pol Stat Dest Deli Vect:
> 00 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 E9
> 01 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 32
> 02 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 3A
> 03 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 42
> 04 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 4A
> 05 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 52
> 06 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 5A
> 07 003 03 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 62
> 08 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 09 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0a 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0b 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0c 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0d 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0e 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 0f 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 10 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 11 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 12 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 13 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 14 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 15 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 16 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> 17 000 00 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 00
> IRQ to pin mappings:
> IRQ0 -> 0:2
> IRQ1 -> 0:1
> IRQ3 -> 0:3
> IRQ4 -> 0:4
> IRQ5 -> 0:5
> IRQ6 -> 0:6
> IRQ7 -> 0:7
> IRQ8 -> 0:8
> IRQ9 -> 0:9
> IRQ10 -> 0:10
> IRQ11 -> 0:11
> IRQ12 -> 0:12
> IRQ13 -> 0:13
> IRQ14 -> 0:14
> IRQ15 -> 0:15
> IRQ16 -> 0:16
> IRQ17 -> 0:17
> IRQ18 -> 0:18
> IRQ19 -> 0:19
> IRQ24 -> 1:0
> IRQ25 -> 1:1
> IRQ26 -> 1:2
> IRQ27 -> 1:3
> IRQ48 -> 2:0
> IRQ49 -> 2:1
> IRQ50 -> 2:2
> IRQ51 -> 2:3
> IRQ52 -> 2:4
> IRQ53 -> 2:5
> IRQ54 -> 2:6
> IRQ55 -> 2:7
> .................................... done.
> PCI: Using ACPI for IRQ routing
> Simple Boot Flag at 0x36 set to 0x1
> Machine check exception polling timer started.
> IA-32 Microcode Update Driver: v1.13 <tigran@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Starting balanced_irq
> highmem bounce pool size: 64 pages
> VFS: Disk quotas dquot_6.5.1
> Dquot-cache hash table entries: 1024 (order 0, 4096 bytes)
> devfs: 2004-01-31 Richard Gooch (rgooch@xxxxxxxxxxxxx)
> devfs: boot_options: 0x0
> udf: registering filesystem
> Initializing Cryptographic API
> ACPI: Power Button (FF) [PWRF]
> ACPI: Processor [CPU0] (supports C1)
> ACPI: Processor [CPU1] (supports C1)
> Real Time Clock Driver v1.12
> Non-volatile memory driver v1.2
> hw_random hardware driver 1.0.0 loaded
> Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
> ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
> ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
> Using anticipatory io scheduler
> Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M
> FDC 0 is a post-1991 82077
> RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize
> loop: loaded (max 8 devices)
> nbd: registered device at major 43
> Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Driver - version 5.2.52-k4
> Copyright (c) 1999-2004 Intel Corporation.
> e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> e1000: eth1: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00alpha2
> ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx
> ICH3: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:00:1f.1
> ICH3: chipset revision 2
> ICH3: not 100% native mode: will probe irqs later
> ide0: BM-DMA at 0x2060-0x2067, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio
> ide1: BM-DMA at 0x2068-0x206f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio
> hdc: CD-224E, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive
> ide1 at 0x170-0x177,0x376 on irq 15
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:03:02.0
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 26
> ide2: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hde:DMA, hdf:DMA
> ide3: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdg:DMA, hdh:DMA
> hde: Maxtor 6Y120M0, ATA DISK drive
> ide2 at 0xf8858080-0xf8858087,0xf885808a on irq 26
> hdg: Maxtor 6Y120M0, ATA DISK drive
> ide3 at 0xf88580c0-0xf88580c7,0xf88580ca on irq 26
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: IDE controller at PCI slot 0000:03:03.0
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: chipset revision 2
> SiI3112 Serial ATA: 100% native mode on irq 27
> ide4: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdi:pio, hdj:pio
> ide5: MMIO-DMA , BIOS settings: hdk:pio, hdl:pio
> hdi: no response (status = 0xfe)
> hdk: no response (status = 0xfe)
> hdi: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
> hdi: no response (status = 0xfe)
> hdk: no response (status = 0xfe), resetting drive
> hdk: no response (status = 0xfe)
> hde: max request size: 64KiB
> hde: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
> /dev/ide/host2/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
> hdg: max request size: 64KiB
> hdg: 240121728 sectors (122942 MB) w/7936KiB Cache, CHS=65535/16/63
> /dev/ide/host2/bus1/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 < p5 p6 p7 p8 p9 >
> hdc: ATAPI 24X CD-ROM drive, 128kB Cache, UDMA(33)
> Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.20
> libata version 1.02 loaded.
> mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice
> serio: i8042 AUX port at 0x60,0x64 irq 12
> serio: i8042 KBD port at 0x60,0x64 irq 1
> input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard on isa0060/serio0
> i2c /dev entries driver
> md: linear personality registered as nr 1
> md: raid0 personality registered as nr 2
> md: raid1 personality registered as nr 3
> md: raid5 personality registered as nr 4
> raid5: measuring checksumming speed
> 8regs : 3244.000 MB/sec
> 8regs_prefetch: 2904.000 MB/sec
> 32regs : 2144.000 MB/sec
> 32regs_prefetch: 1960.000 MB/sec
> pIII_sse : 3648.000 MB/sec
> pII_mmx : 4624.000 MB/sec
> p5_mmx : 4536.000 MB/sec
> raid5: using function: pIII_sse (3648.000 MB/sec)
> md: multipath personality registered as nr 7
> md: md driver 0.90.0 MAX_MD_DEVS=256, MD_SB_DISKS=27
> device-mapper: 4.1.0-ioctl (2003-12-10) initialised: dm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> NET: Registered protocol family 2
> IP: routing cache hash table of 8192 buckets, 64Kbytes
> TCP: Hash tables configured (established 262144 bind 65536)
> ip_conntrack version 2.1 (8188 buckets, 65504 max) - 300 bytes per conntrack
> ip_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> ipt_recent v0.3.1: Stephen Frost <sfrost@xxxxxxxxxxx>. http://snowman.net/proje
> cts/ipt_recent/
> arp_tables: (C) 2002 David S. Miller
> NET: Registered protocol family 1
> NET: Registered protocol family 10
> IPv6 over IPv4 tunneling driver
> ip6_tables: (C) 2000-2002 Netfilter core team
> registering ipv6 mark target
> NET: Registered protocol family 17
> NET: Registered protocol family 15
> md: Autodetecting RAID arrays.
> md: autorun ...
>
> [snip]
>
>
>
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