Hello Andy,

Personally I'd install a Dell Remote Access Card (DRAC card) in the machine. It 
gives you KVM, hardware reset and more.
It costs a little, but I imagine that you can afford it if you can afford 
buying such a server :-)

Ewald

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew D. Fant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: dinsdag 10 oktober 2006 15:52
To: [email protected]
Subject: [gentoo-server] Grub over serial ports at high speeds

Morning all,
   I have a Dell 6850 that I am running in a data center environment with 
Gentoo.  There is no KVM capacity for it, so I
have set it up with serial console support. Dell's console redirection works 
great at 115200 baud, and I've had no
trouble with boot messages going to the tty at that speed either, but Grub 
refuses to work over the serial port at that
speed.  When I add the following lines to grub.conf:

serial --unit=0 --speed=115200 --word=8 --parity=no terminal serial

the system just sits there mute and I have to boot from the liveCD and disable 
the serial terminal option.

Any suggestions about this, or do I need to break down and go back to lilo, 
which even though deprecated does work with
high-speed serial connections.

Thanks,
        Andy

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