Configuring windows for serial console redirection – Dell POWEREDGE M1000E User Manual
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4.
Ensure that On with console redirection via COM1 is enabled.
5.
Enable Redirection After Boot (default value is Disabled). This option enables BIOS console redirection across
subsequent reboots.
6.
Save the changes and exit.
The managed server reboots.
Configuring Windows for Serial Console Redirection
There is no configuration necessary for servers running the Microsoft Windows Server versions, starting with Windows
Server 2003. Windows receives information from the BIOS, and enable the Special Administration Console (SAC)
console one COM1.
Configuring Linux for Server Serial Console Redirection During Boot
The following steps are specific to the Linux GRand Unified Bootloader (GRUB). Similar changes are necessary for using
a different boot loader.
NOTE: When you configure the client VT100 emulation window, set the window or application that is displaying the
redirected console to 25 rows x 80 columns to ensure proper text display; otherwise, some text screens may be
garbled.
Edit the /etc/grub.conf file as follows:
1.
Locate the general setting sections in the file and add the following two new lines:
serial --unit=1 --speed=57600
terminal --timeout=10 serial
2.
Append two options to the kernel line:
kernel console=ttyS1,57600
3.
If the /etc/grub.conf contains a splashimage directive, comment it out.
The following example shows the changes described in this procedure.
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making
changes
# to this file
# NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This
means that
# all kernel and initrd paths are relative to
/, e.g.
# root (hd0,0)
# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=
/dev/sdal
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=10
#splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
serial --unit=1 --speed=57600
terminal --timeout=10 serial
title Red Hat Linux Advanced Server (2.4.9-e.3smp)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.9-e.3smp ro root=
/dev/sda1 hda=ide-scsi console=ttyS0 console=
ttyS1,57600
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.9-e.3smp.img
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