>> 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.
My understanding is that "redirection after boot" leaves code in the BIOS active, such that any application using BIOS calls to display characters on the screen will have them echoed over the serial console. This means OSes like DOS will be accessible over serial, because they call upon the BIOS to write to the screen. Of course Linux writes direct to video memory instead, which is why you need to set up redirection for it separately. I suspect it may work leaving redirection enabled *and* telling Linux to put the console on a serial port, simply because while Linux is running, nobody is calling the BIOS to write to the serial port. Still, it's probably better to switch it off so that there really is only one bit of code trying to access the serial port at a time. This does mean that you'll need to configure GRUB to send its output to the serial port too, and if you ever need to remotely boot a DOS image for a firmware reflash or the like, you'll have to remember to turn the option back on again! Cheers, Adam. _______________________________________________ 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
