From owner-freebsd-proliant@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 9 15:04:12 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2387C16A403; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:04:12 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (ns1.ecoms.com [207.44.130.137]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FB3B43D7D; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:04:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mv@thebeastie.org) Received: from p4.roq.com (localhost.roq.com [127.0.0.1]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BEAE34CA4C; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:05:53 +0000 (GMT) Received: from [150.101.157.158] (ppp157-158.static.internode.on.net [150.101.157.158]) by p4.roq.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21B394CD4D; Sat, 9 Sep 2006 15:05:51 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <4502D7DF.5060302@thebeastie.org> Date: Sun, 10 Sep 2006 01:03:59 +1000 From: Michael Vince User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.7.13) Gecko/20060526 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hoyer References: <45008628.2000007@juniper.net> <4500F627.1040104@thebeastie.org> <20060908130444.V64655@ganymede.hub.org> <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> In-Reply-To: <20060909151636.A4598@sylvana.boldlygoingnowhere.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP Cc: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: DL 380/G5 with 16G of ram X-BeenThere: freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Technical discussion of FreeBSD on HP ProLiant server platforms." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:04:12 -0000 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.