Post #3739926
2026-07-11 12:57 UTC
@brouhaha@mastodon.social AFAIK that BMC chip has its own display outputs, before the actual system is even giving any outputs at all it'll already be displaying messages; it's hard to redirect that. It should still display the actual output AFTER the initial sections of POST (since those actually come from the CPU/GPU and not the BMC).
It's also worth mentioning the Threadrippers do not have any iGPU by my knowledge.
do you actually have a GPU that it can use besides the default output?
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@brouhaha@mastodon.social 2026-07-11 13:00
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz I don't want to redirect the BMC output. I just don't want the BIOS and early boot messages going to it, and AFAICT, this motherboard WILL NOT allow that to be changed, even though the manual claims it. The BIOS clearly has the ability to write to either the AST2600 VGA (an exposed PCIe device), or the discrete (a different PCIe device), and it can't be bothered to honor the documented switch setting.