Changing the console com port

[John Cagle]

Barry,

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.

John

On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 1:44 PM, Barry Friedman <friedman at www1.emax.ca>wrote:

>
> I am trying to get virtual serial boot console working with
> ilo standard on the DL380G4. First off, I can't see any way to
> get the ILO to reconfigure and use COM1 as the virtual port.
> Anders Nordby had posted a similar problem in Oct '07 (see
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-October/000302.
> html<http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-October/000302.html>)
> in which he apparently was configuring the RBSU from the command
> line. Was this using ilo2 or advanced ilo?
>
> In any case, the alternative is to redirect the console to COM2 and
> reconfigure the boot parameters. The BSD handbook says to use this line
> in the kernel configuration file:
>
>  device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3
>
> but config reports a syntax error on this line. Is the handbook in
> error? Do I need to set the flags for sio1 in the HINTS file? What is
> the correct way to change the com port?
>
> --
> Barry Friedman
> Emax Computer Systems Inc.,
> 480 Tweedsmuir Ave.,
> Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9
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