Changing the console com port

[Barry Friedman]

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.

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