Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 13:26:44 -0400 From: Barry Friedman <friedman@www1.emax.ca> To: John Cagle <jcagle@gmail.com> Cc: bfriedman@emax.ca, freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Changing the console com port Message-ID: <20080801172644.GA28300@emax.ca> In-Reply-To: <6863f0c90807291826k55814fe2u837fb60493230c44@mail.gmail.com> References: <20080729184452.GA14558@emax.ca> <6863f0c90807291826k55814fe2u837fb60493230c44@mail.gmail.com>
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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@emax.ca Phone: (613) 725-3198 Fax: 725-0298
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