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Subject: Re: IPMI doesn't work...
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Jeff Behl wrote:

> Michael Vince wrote:
>
>> Just out of interest has any one got serial console to work with this 
>> IPMI stuff?
>> I was looking at regular 9pin serial alternatives since Dell machines 
>> normally only have 1 serial port and I prefer 2.
>
>
> yep, we've gotten this to work, but again only with linux.  it looks 
> just like you're seeing it over the serial port...pretty click.  i'm 
> sure it'd work with bsd just as well if we could get to the bmc after 
> the kernel loads...


Using intel boards and the intel client (under linux emulation), I have 
done serial port redirection.
slow but it works ..
you can do BIOS stuff, bootloader and kernel console stuff.