found this about some tyan motherboard, which is not what we have in the blade but..
> One of my mail to the support: > But I try three things: > 1) redirect BIOS to serial port: OK > 2) redirect kernel to serial port: OK > 3) redirect both BIOS and kernel to serial port: problem. > > In the case 3) I get all the message from the BIOS, I can manage it, > but when the kernel boots, the kernel sends nothing to the serial port > if the serial port was already used by the BIOS. > So I suppose that the BIOS does not release the serial port, before > the kernel boots. > The answer from TYAN: > I used Red Hat 9 and was able to redirect both the BIOS and RH 9 at > the same > time. is this true? how can I work around this? On 6/10/05, Rob Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The reason why the first way doesn't work is because the boot loader uses > > BIOS routines to write to the BIOS console, so console output stops once > > the kernel gets loaded. > > can i get the kernel to write using bios routines to the bios console too? > > > The second version "should" work by looking at it. I just went and tried > > to locate my working pxeboot environment but I realized the Linux master > > in that blade rack was shutdown due to security issues. > > > > Hmmm, on further thought I remembered I'm not using a standard pxeboot > > loader. I'm using an experimental one a developer gave me to try out, > > which allowed you to set the boot loader console and kernel console > > separately. However your second method should still work. > > > > Are you setting serial console redirect in the BIOS? > > I'm not sure, how to I get into the bios config on these things? > > > > > diana
