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Michael Favinsky | 1 Jul 2005 02:49

Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

I have some DL140's running OpenBSD. The BIOS redirection stops working when
OpenBSD starts booting. Kinda sucks since you can't see the boot sequence or
go into the BIOS setup from a serial console. Disable the BIOS console
redirection and set OpenBSD to redirect the console to com0. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Martin Bruns [mailto:martin <at> konahina.de] 
Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:55 AM
To: marc <at> msys.ch; misc <at> openbsd.org
Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

marc <at> msys.ch schrieb:

> Martin Bruns wrote:
>
>> Hi Marc,
>>
>> that was what I have done initially but then I fall back to 9600 but 
>> also there I did not get anything on the console after 'set tty 
>> com0'. To make it clear I can not use the serial nor the 
>> keyboard/monitor after that command.
>
>
> Maybe you serial link is not in order.  Set the baudrate to 9600, so 
> you are sure what parameters to set.

I already check that 

>
> FOr a first try, disable the serial console feature in the BIOS (not

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Brian A. Seklecki | 1 Jul 2005 05:21

Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

The same behavior happens on Dell's serial console redirection.  It
happens when you boot FreeBSD too.  As soon as the kernel starts output
ANSI characters it goes dead.

Dell lets you toggle between VT100/220 mode and ANSI mode, but it's
unaffected.  The kernel output just kills it.

Dell has an option "Continue after OS Load"

The trick is disable that boolean and  make a custom boot/install CD
with an etc/boot.conf that redirects.

You'd think that between the collective minds at HP and Dell, they'd
have licensed Real Weasel / PC Weasel technology. 

Till the list archives for details.

~BAS

On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 20:49, Michael Favinsky wrote:
> I have some DL140's running OpenBSD. The BIOS redirection stops working when
> OpenBSD starts booting. Kinda sucks since you can't see the boot sequence or
> go into the BIOS setup from a serial console. Disable the BIOS console
> redirection and set OpenBSD to redirect the console to com0. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin Bruns [mailto:martin <at> konahina.de] 
> Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2005 8:55 AM
> To: marc <at> msys.ch; misc <at> openbsd.org
> Subject: Re: HP ProLiant DL140 serial consola installation

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