On 2010-05-20 20:56, Alexander Dupuy wrote: > Jefferson Ogata wrote: >> ** First thing you should do in BMC setup is reset to default. The BMCs >> often ship with a weird non-default setting that will cause lots of >> serial port feedback if you try to run a getty on the serial console. > > For "often" you can substitute "always" (at least in my experience).
I've had one or two cases where I *didn't* have this problem. :^) >> Yes, you will get the entire POST including the initial BIOS id. You >> might also want to set "Redirection after boot" in the BIOS. In grub, >> add something like "console=ttyS1,57600 console=tty0" to your kernel >> line. > > Just to make this clear, if the BIOS "redirection after boot" is > enabled, the VGA console will be duplicated on the serial port. This > may be okay (and is the easiest way to make it work), but if you go that > route you want to make sure that you are not also using the serial port > directly (e.g. grub console=ttyS1,57600, /etc/inittab ttyS1 entry, > etcetera). > > If you have redirection after boot disabled, you are responsible for > making serial access work in ISOLINUX/PXELINUX, grub, and Linux. Hmm, my impression was that "Redirection After Boot" only affects comms up to the point of getting a bootloader running, but I'm not 100% sure. Anyway, no harm in trying either way. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
