I run my firewall on a SuperMicro A1SRi-2758F. On this hardware, I've
noticed that I seem to have the choice of either a PC console or a
serial console. If I ask for a serial console *on this hardware* I get
a console on uart:com0 and it works great but I don't have any PC/VGA
consoles. On the other hand, if I configure for a PC console, hoping
to just enable the serial port in /etc/ttys, I have a getty running
against the UART hardware but it can't use it as a console. Hitting
return in a cu window from my oob server doesn't get any output.
I can solve my problems in one of two ways. If I can boot with serial
consoles by setting them up in /etc/boot.conf and also have terminals
on the pc consoles, I'd be happy. I'd also be happy if I could figure
out how to configure the BIOS to make enable the serial port as just
a plain serial port. Super Micro seems to have other ideas and I
understand that this is *my* problem.
I'll tak any suggestions here.
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Chris
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Christopher Sean Hilton [chris/at/vindaloo/dot/com]
