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| Newer page: | version 8 | Last edited on Tuesday, March 7, 2006 8:37:52 am | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
| Older page: | version 6 | Last edited on Monday, July 18, 2005 4:24:36 pm | by DanielLawson | Revert |
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If your motherboard supports serial redirection (as any good server board should) this is easy - it'll just work, if it's enabled in the bios. Connect to the serial line via minicom, and you should see boot messages. Note that the serial port will probably still be set at 19200 bps or so at this stage.
If your motherboard doesn't support serial redirection, you won't ever get BIOS access over serial, but you can still get everything after the bootloader starts. See [GrubNotes|http://www.wlug.org.nz/GrubNotes#hdr_using_54_with_a_serial_console] for information on setting up Grub with a serial console.
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+Grab one of the aforementioned DB9-RJ45 connectors (see further up the page). Go here http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/10bthubs/hub/1500hbug/techspec.htm#31255 and join the pins up according to the "CONSOLE Port" and "DB9 Pin" columns. Then you can use a standard Cat5 patch cable to connect the RJ45 connector on the adapter, and the RJ45 connector on the back of your switch/whatever, or run your console through a patch panel, etc.
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+(Note that the adapter you've just created is not the same as the one that (used to?) ship with Cisco gear - they're designed for rollover cables)
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