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Christian99
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 Posted: Tue Sep 04, 2018 9:20 pm Post subject: booting headless with serial console |
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I have a apu3c4. This device is headless, i.E. no graphical output, only a serial console.
The serial console is working, when booting from boot isos dd'ed to an usb stick (tried arch and gentoo isos).
Problem is only, when I install gentoo to harddisk and try to boot from there:
Bootloader is grub2, the output appears on serial console, I can select the menu entry, then the messages Loading kernel/Loading initrd appear, and then nothing more.
of course kernel parameter console=ttyS0,115200 is passed to booting kernel.
Now I'm a little bit stuck, not sure where the problem is. I would gues, that my kernel is missing some driver for the serial terminal, though I'm not sure.
a little bit info:
dmesg | grep -i tty
| Code: | [ 3.486466] Serial: 8250/16550 driver, 4 ports, IRQ sharing enabled
[ 3.512320] serial8250: ttyS0 at I/O 0x3f8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[ 3.539646] serial8250: ttyS1 at I/O 0x2f8 (irq = 3, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[ 3.567032] serial8250: ttyS2 at I/O 0x3e8 (irq = 4, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A
[ 3.594437] serial8250: ttyS3 at I/O 0x2e8 (irq = 3, base_baud = 115200) is a 16550A |
(hopefully) relevant parts from kernel config
| Code: | #
# Serial drivers
#
CONFIG_SERIAL_EARLYCON=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DEPRECATED_OPTIONS is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PNP=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_FINTEK=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CONSOLE=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DMA=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_PCI=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXAR=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_CS=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MEN_MCB=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_NR_UARTS=48
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RUNTIME_UARTS=32
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MANY_PORTS=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_SHARE_IRQ=y
# CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DETECT_IRQ is not set
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RSA=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_DW=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_RT288X=y
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_LPSS=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MID=m
CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_MOXA=m |
question is now: Where is the actual problem? Am I right, that I'm just missing a few kernel options, or is the problem rooted somewhere else? What can I do to find out more?
Thx in advance,
Christian |
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bbgermany
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 8:44 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
please have a look here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/working_with_the_serial_console
You should add 115200n8 instead of only 115200 and you should make grub aware of the serial console in /etc/default/grub as well.
Do you use systemd or openrc? Make sure there is a getty listening on ttyS0 after booting.
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 10:25 am Post subject: |
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I like those APUs for my small servers 
I have:
/etc/default/grub | Quote: | # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
#
# To populate all changes in this file you need to regenerate your
# grub configuration file afterwards:
# 'grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg'
#
# See the grub info page for documentation on possible variables and
# their associated values.
GRUB_DISTRIBUTOR="Gentoo"
GRUB_TIMEOUT=2
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="rootfstype=ext4 splash console=ttyS0,115200n8"
GRUB_TERMINAL=serial
GRUB_GFXPAYLOAD_LINUX=text
GRUB_DISABLE_RECOVERY=true
GRUB_DISABLE_SUBMENU=y
GRUB_SERIAL_COMMAND="serial --speed=115200 --unit=0 --word=8 --parity=no --stop=1" |
/etc/inittab | Quote: | ...
# SERIAL CONSOLES
s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100
s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS1 vt100
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My dmesg http://bpaste.net/show/a48e065d03f9 (mine is apu2c4 though) |
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Christian99
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| Posted: Wed Sep 05, 2018 12:31 pm Post subject: |
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grub is aware of serial console and i'm getting the output, only kernel output is not arriving
when booting from usb stick, console=ttyS0,115200 was enough, the n8 wasn't needed, but I will try adding it. |
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Christian99
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 6:29 am Post subject: |
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Just adding n8 didn't help. It seems, that it's not just missing console output, it seems that it's not even booting.
I have set it up, so that it should connect to my network via dhcp at boot automatically, but I don't see anything at my dhcp server.
I will try compiling kernel with genkernel, and see if this helps |
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freke
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| Posted: Thu Sep 06, 2018 9:29 am Post subject: |
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If you edited the /etc/default/grub to add the console-line - you did run grub-mkconfig again afterwards ofcourse?
I can try pasting my 4.17.19-config from my apu2c4 when I get home from work.
[EDIT]
.config
| Quote: | lamp ~ # lspci -nnk
00:00.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1566]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1566]
00:02.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:156b]
00:02.2 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1 [1022:1439]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.3 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1 [1022:1439]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:02.4 PCI bridge [0604]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Family 16h Processor Functions 5:1 [1022:1439]
Kernel driver in use: pcieport
00:08.0 Encryption controller [1080]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1537]
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1537]
Kernel driver in use: ccp
00:10.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:7814] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB XHCI Controller [1022:1410]
Kernel driver in use: xhci_hcd
00:11.0 SATA controller [0106]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [IDE mode] [1022:7800] (rev 40)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SATA Controller [IDE mode] [1022:7800]
Kernel driver in use: ahci
00:13.0 USB controller [0c03]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808] (rev 39)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH USB EHCI Controller [1022:7808]
Kernel driver in use: ehci-pci
00:14.0 SMBus [0c05]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b] (rev 42)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SMBus Controller [1022:780b]
Kernel driver in use: piix4_smbus
00:14.3 ISA bridge [0601]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e] (rev 11)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH LPC Bridge [1022:780e]
00:14.7 SD Host controller [0805]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SD Flash Controller [1022:7813] (rev 01)
Subsystem: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] FCH SD Flash Controller [1022:7806]
Kernel driver in use: sdhci-pci
00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1580]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1581]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1582]
00:18.3 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1583]
Kernel driver in use: k10temp
00:18.4 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1584]
Kernel driver in use: fam15h_power
00:18.5 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1585]
01:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:157b] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:0000]
Kernel driver in use: igb
02:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:157b] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:0000]
Kernel driver in use: igb
03:00.0 Ethernet controller [0200]: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:157b] (rev 03)
Subsystem: Intel Corporation I210 Gigabit Network Connection [8086:0000]
Kernel driver in use: igb |
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Kalin
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:33 pm Post subject: |
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| freke wrote: | 00:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1580]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1581]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1582]
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Any idea what those devices are? The additional serial ports?
I am testing now APU4B4 at the moment and was wondering if I need some additional CONFIG. |
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NeddySeagoon
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| Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2018 7:53 pm Post subject: |
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Christian99,
You will need to edit /etc/inittab
| Code: | # SERIAL CONSOLES
#s0:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS0 vt100
#s1:12345:respawn:/sbin/agetty -L 115200 ttyS1 vt100 |
You don't get agetty started on serial ports by default.
-- edit --
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0:18.0 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1580]
00:18.1 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1581]
00:18.2 Host bridge [0600]: Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. [AMD] Device [1022:1582] |
Are all processor bits and pieces. I would not expect serial ports to be the PCI bus. They will be outputs of the South Bridge.
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