Serial console install

[Doug White]

On Mon, 11 Apr 2005, Michael Vince wrote:

> Also I would like to make aware to the discussion IPMI which I believe
> in Version 2 has console support,
> This stuff seems to be the future of serial console, I have found it
> frustrating that Dell sell most of their servers with only 1 serial
> port, I believe there excuse is IPMI.
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~dwhite/ipmi/
> http://www.intel.com/design/servers/ipmi/
> http://www.freebsdsystems.com/ipmi-tech.php

This just rebroadcasts the BIOS console redirection. Once FreeBSD starts
up that goes away.

I looked at implementing an IPMIv2 console client and gave up since the
serial console protocol is gnarly.

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