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7 Serial Debugging of Blade Host on Dell PowerEdge MX7000 chassis with Microsoft Windows Debugger |
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: Blade BIOS setting
 Exit BIOS and reboot
Target Windows setup –
 Enable debugging, and set transport to serial, com port 1, 115200 using bcdedit commands
(commands noted below). See -- https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-
hardware/drivers/debugger/setting-up-a-null-modem-cable-connection for further information.
On the target computer, open a Command Prompt window as Administrator, and enter the following
commands
- bcdedit /debug on
- bcdedit /dbgsettings serial debugport:1 baudrate:115200
Reboot the target computer.
 Type the following command in Windows command prompt – “bcdedit /enum all”. There will be a
lot of information, but scroll down to find the “Debugger Settings” section. If everything is correct
the settings should look like in Figure 6:
: Verification of debug settings