[powerstation-owners] Booting from DVD?

[Stefan Nürnberger]

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

I used the provided RJ45 female to DB9 male adapter[1] and a U/UTP 
network patch cable to map the debug port to a default RS-232 port. Pin 
assignment for the adapter is mentioned in the "Extended instructions" 
sheet.

1 DCD (orange)
2 RX (green)
3 TX (yellow)
4 DTR (black)
5 GND (red)
6 DSR (blue)
7 RTS (white)
8 CTS (brown)
9 -

 From here any true nullmodem cable (DB9 female on both ends) should do 
fine since the only critical pins are RX, TX and GND. Handshaking pins 
are not needed.

Stefan

[1] The instructions say the provided adapter is RJ45 modular to DB9 
female. In my box the provided adapter was in fact RJ45 modular to DB9 
male. If you really have the mentioned DB9 female adapter, you will need 
  the other pin assignment and a (patch) connection cable instead of a 
nullmodem cable.