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c. Select the Virtual Serial Port, and then press Enter.

d. Press ESC.

The main menu is displayed.

4. Set the BIOS Serial Console Baud Rate.

a. Select BIOS Serial Console Baud Rate, and then press Enter.

b. Select 115200, and then press Enter.

NOTE: The iLO Virtual Serial Port does not use a physical UART, so the BIOS Serial

Console Baud Rate value has no effect on the speed the iLO Virtual Serial Port uses

to send and receive data.

c. Press ESC.

The main menu is displayed.

5. Set the EMS Console COM port.

EMS is for Windows only.

a. Select EMS Console, and then press Enter.

b. Select the COM port that matches the value selected in step 2, and then press Enter.

c. Press F10 to save the changes.

6. Resume the boot process.

a. Press Esc until the main menu is displayed.

b. Select Exit and Resume Boot in the main menu, and then press Enter.

c. When prompted to confirm the request, press Enter to exit the utility and resume the

boot process.

Configuring the iLO Virtual Serial Port for Linux

You can manage Linux servers remotely using console redirection. To configure Linux to use

console redirection, you must configure the Linux boot loader (GRUB). The boot-loader application

loads from the bootable device when the server system ROM finishes POST. Define the serial

interface (ttyS0) as the default interface so that if no input arrives from the local keyboard within

10 seconds (the default timeout value), the system will redirect output to the serial interface (iLO

Virtual Serial Port).

NOTE: ttyS0 and unit 0 are for com1 and ttyS1 and unit 1 are for com2.

The following configuration example uses Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and com1:

serial -unit=0 -speed=115200

terminal -timeout=10 serial console

default=0

timeout=10

#splashimage=(hd0,2)/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Red Hat Linux (2. 6.18-164.e15)

root (hd0,2)

kernel /vmlinux-2.6.18-164.e15 ro root=/dev/sda9 console=tty0 console=ttyS0,115200

initrd /initrd-2.6.18-164.e15.img

If com2 was selected, the configuration example would be as follows:

serial -unit=1 -speed=115200