DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram

[Michael Vince]

Olaf Hoyer wrote:

> On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>
>>>
>>> It looks like HP were trying to have better remote serial bios 
>>> support by going really basic command line style for remote BIOS 
>>> control but its no good.
>>> The Dell bios is all nice and menu'ed and works flawlessly over 
>>> remote serial, no garbledness overwriting other text.
>>
>
> The HP boxes offer 2 ways of serial: traditional BIOS redirection at 
> 9600 bps through 9pin COM1, which you can set up in BIOS, I recall 
> that there are some options to it, like terminal type, ANSI or VT100. 
> Could that be an issue in your environment?
>
Yeah the terminal choice is probably it, I asked some one on the local 
side of the server to enable the serial bios via COM1 and when it would 
display a full screen and then just garble everything else at the bottom 
I asked him about 5 times to look for some kind of ANSI or VT100 
terminal type option so I could have a chance of seeing whats really 
going on he said there was nothing, but now I am sure he just couldn't 
see it or just didn't care to look.
I tried every terminal type I could on my side to help try make it 
display properly, but it just didn't work.

Thanks for all the input.