Upgrade 6.1 to 6.2 on HP Gen8. Both baremetal & Proxmox. Serial port not working on 1.03b (proxmox).
Hi,
I have DSM 6.1 (1.02b loader) on HP Gen8. I'm using an usb stick (with synoboot.img burnt), which can work both on baremetal and Proxmox so I can switch between starting DSM on HP Gen8 without any virtualization layer, or starting DSM from Proxmox (running over HP Gen8). I'd recommend this environment so if your proxmox fails, you can pick up your phisical disks (I'm currently passing them thru to proxmox) and the usb stick and start directly in the server (even another new serve
I've been iddle some time but I'm coming back with some responses I discovered by researching this a little bit.
1/ In order to have a *full* serial console, you need to uncomment/comment these lines in grub.cfg:
set extra_args_3617='earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,115200n8 earlyprintk loglevel=15'
#set extra_args_3617=''
Then you can observe the complete boot process with a simple "qm terminal <vmid>".
2/ When doing so, I discovered what was happening:
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