[rescue] Why Phoenix ServerBIOS serial console sucks

Greg A. Woods woods at weird.com
Tue Feb 26 03:12:52 CST 2002


[ On Monday, February 25, 2002 at 16:49:02 (-0800), Josh Neal wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: [rescue] Why Phoenix ServerBIOS serial console sucks
>
> On Mon, Feb 25, 2002 at 06:42:42PM -0500, Greg A. Woods wrote:
> > 
> > Did you actually use them (i.e. successfully examine and reset any BIOS
> > settings)?  How?  What speed?
> 
> Works for me at 38400. Need to use Eterm to display the output,
> though, as it does a better job than xterm.

I'm glad to hear it works somewhat for someone.  I really couldn't
believe Intel would claim the functionality without having at least some
idea that it could work under some mythical ideal conditions.....

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