Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:03:59 +1000 From: Michael Vince <mv@thebeastie.org> To: Olaf Hoyer <ohoyer@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram Message-ID: <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org> In-Reply-To: <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <4500F627.1040104@thebeastie.org> <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org>
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Olaf Hoyer wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > >>> >>> It looks like HP were trying to have better remote serial bios >>> support by going really basic command line style for remote BIOS >>> control but its no good. >>> The Dell bios is all nice and menu'ed and works flawlessly over >>> remote serial, no garbledness overwriting other text. >> > > The HP boxes offer 2 ways of serial: traditional BIOS redirection at > 9600 bps through 9pin COM1, which you can set up in BIOS, I recall > that there are some options to it, like terminal type, ANSI or VT100. > Could that be an issue in your environment? > Yeah the terminal choice is probably it, I asked some one on the local side of the server to enable the serial bios via COM1 and when it would display a full screen and then just garble everything else at the bottom I asked him about 5 times to look for some kind of ANSI or VT100 terminal type option so I could have a chance of seeing whats really going on he said there was nothing, but now I am sure he just couldn't see it or just didn't care to look. I tried every terminal type I could on my side to help try make it display properly, but it just didn't work. Thanks for all the input.
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