Re: [Wg-test-framework] May 13th XenProject - AllNet call

[Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don Koch writes ("Re: [Wg-test-framework] May 13th XenProject - AllNet call"):
> Made a couple of trips to the colo. In all the trials and testing we
> got the serial lines swapped. Fixed that. Did some bios tweaks (turn
> off flow-control and set serial redirect to always). Part of the
> issue was that I'd forgotten that the OS had been reloaded and my
> inittab/getty setting were gone.
> 
> In any case, all the wiring is back in place and the systems are
> responding (sorta) to serial I/O. The caveat is that it is painful
> (at least was for me) to get into the BIOS from the serial line. It
> uses the F4 key instead of the Del key used from the console and it
> seems to ignore it a lot. It does acknowledge the "ESC to boot"
> key-in. I did get into the BIOS once via the serial line.

Normally `press F4' means, from the serial port, bouncing `ESC 4 ESC 4
ESC 4...'.

> Next thought is to change the terminal type to vt220 if it's an option.

Shall I have a go ?

(For reference, I think we are talking about rimava[01] here.)

Ian.

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