Post #3739924
2026-07-11 13:04 UTC
@brouhaha@mastodon.social it kind of depends on what you mean by 'early boot messages', the very first messages it'll display aren't actually POST messages from the BIOS/CPU, they're raw system states (like those numbers on the mobo if your system has one of those numeric displays) that the BMC wraps in a pretty picture, such as 'initializing memory' etc.
It SHOULD however be able to display the actual POST with further init, as in, as soon as the BIOS starts displaying output, but that could take a few secs.
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-07-11 13:11
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz Those numbers are NOT written to VGA by the x86, that's what the BMC does (presumably based on port 80 writes, but that's irrelevant). As I said, I don't give a flying f*** about that stuff. The BMC can do whatever the hell it wants. I want the BIOS and early boot, running on the x86, to write its output where it's supposed to, which is not the VGA, since that is "disabled".