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Date:      Tue, 29 Jul 2008 14:44:52 -0400
From:      Barry Friedman <friedman@www1.emax.ca>
To:        freebsd-proliant@freebsd.org
Subject:   Changing the console com port
Message-ID:  <20080729184452.GA14558@emax.ca>

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I am trying to get virtual serial boot console working with
ilo standard on the DL380G4. First off, I can't see any way to
get the ILO to reconfigure and use COM1 as the virtual port.
Anders Nordby had posted a similar problem in Oct '07 (see
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-proliant/2007-October/000302.
html) in which he apparently was configuring the RBSU from the command
line. Was this using ilo2 or advanced ilo?

In any case, the alternative is to redirect the console to COM2 and
reconfigure the boot parameters. The BSD handbook says to use this line
in the kernel configuration file:

  device sio1 at isa? port IO_COM2 flags 0x10 irq 3

but config reports a syntax error on this line. Is the handbook in
error? Do I need to set the flags for sio1 in the HINTS file? What is
the correct way to change the com port?

-- 
Barry Friedman                         
Emax Computer Systems Inc., 
480 Tweedsmuir Ave., 
Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9



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