On Fri, 30 Nov 2007, holger glaess wrote:

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> of cause , i try to setup com2 but the system says at bootpromt "com port is
> not aviable" , but if the kernel
> already loaded the com port is aviable.
>
> there is no setting options at the bios to change the com port from the ipmi
> board.

Doesn't the bootloader number the com ports from zero on? AFAIR I could 
set the bootloader on a DL 385 to use the ILO com port via setting up com1 
in boot.conf. This is a few month since I did that and I have no physical 
access to that machine now, so I can't look at it further.

Best Regards,
    Markus