redirection) and use consdev com0. (Unless you used the bios console
direction at 9600 bps)
Right, and the Dell PE uses com 2, or com1 (when properly counting
from 0), ah la 0x2F8 which is logically connected to a serial port on the
DRAC5 via the daughterboard connection.
And that's where
Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
Right, and the Dell PE uses com 2, or com1 (when properly counting
from 0), ah la 0x2F8 which is logically connected to a serial port on
the DRAC5 via the daughterboard connection.
The drac [345] Cards actually hook into or present a new vga adapter to
the system
On 3-Nov-06, at 11:13 AM, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
With the Real Weasel, you could connect on demand and force a screen
refresh/redraw and it would grab the current VGA framebuffer and re-
write to the TTY.
I invented the Weasel and even I use it in Serial passthrough mode.
The VGA
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 01:05:04AM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
In either case, forget about sysinst/sysinstall to install off of stock
install media.
I'm not sure why - just stop the bootloader (still in bios console
redirection) and use consdev com0. (Unless you used the bios console
God I miss the days of the good old PC Weasel. Those guys would have made
a killing selling the technology to Intel/Dell/Phoenix. Instead this is
what we're stuck with
On two platforms I work with:
1) Dell Poweredge [1,2][8,9]50
2) Axiomtek VIA Embedded SBC83672
I have noticed that
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 06:18:22PM -0500, Brian A. Seklecki wrote:
I have noticed that the Phoenix BIOS console redirection feature on both
discontinues to operate once the kernel has booted (however, the 1st/2nd
stage boot loaders work fine).
Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use the
Why is that a problem? The BIOS doesn't use the console once
the kernel has booted.
Because it becomes a burden always having to customize your
install/upgrade media/kernels/bootblocks to use redirection.
Dell knew that; that's why they made the DRAC4 with a virtual VNC-based
console
