[powerstation-owners] Booting from DVD?

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Wed Nov 12 14:59:04 MST 2008


Stefan Nürnberger wrote:
> The PowerStation seems to have problems with some USB Keyboards in the 
> firmware. The better way to get to OF prompt is by using the RJ45 debug 
> serial port. You could use either an old serial terminal or another 
> machine with nullmodem cable and minicom (linux) or hyperterminal 
> (windows) as terminal emulator. Connection settings are "19200 8N1".
>
> Press "s" while booting to get to OF prompt and there type "boot cdrom". 
> et voila.
>   

Yes this is the route I'm trying to take.  I am now lost in a maze of 
RS-232 cables, all slightly different.


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