Changing the console com port
Barry Friedman
friedman at www1.emax.ca
Fri Aug 1 17:26:46 UTC 2008
John,
Thanks for this. I hadn't noticed the RBSU setup option F9 during boot
and I see that this allows the change of serial port. In the end I
was able to use the standard COM2 port by changing the sio1 flags in
/boot/device.hints and this seems to work in freebsd 7 (also needed to
remove the sio0 flags line and add a boot.config file).
In examing the RBSU options, I noticed a thermal shutdown option which
was enabled. Is there any chance of this triggering a reboot without
leaving any ILO log messages?
Barry
You wrote:
> You have to use the BIOS configuration utility to configure which COM port
> resources are used for the iLO Virtual Serial Port. (Also called RBSU - ROM
> Based Setup Utility.) That utility is either menu driven, or command line
> driven -- it has its own settings for that choice.
>
> I think the root of the problem Anders was having is that FreeBSD insists on
> using the ACPI tables to enable serial ports, instead of just "hardwiring"
> the COM1 and COM2 ports as serial consoles. Maybe if you disable ACPI you
> can do what Anders wanted to do.
--
Barry Friedman
Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9
bfriedman at emax.ca Phone: (613) 725-3198 Fax: 725-0298
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