Chapter 4

BIOS Setup Description

Remote Access Configuration Submenu

Feature

Options

Description

Remote Access

Disabled

Enable/Disable the BIOS remote access feature.

 

Enabled

Note: If the systems serial ports are disabled in the 'I/

 

O Interface Configuration' submenu, then Serial

 

 

 

 

Redirection is disabled and 'Remote Access

 

 

Configuration' menu is unavailable to the users.

 

 

 

Serial Port Number

COM1

Select the serial port you want to use for console

 

COM2

redirection.

 

 

Note: Only enabled serial ports are presented as an

 

 

option.

 

 

 

Serial Port Mode

115200 8,n,1

Select the baud rate (transmitted bits per second) you

 

57600 8,n,1

want the serial port to use for console redirection.

 

Note: The terminal program used with Serial

 

19200 8,n,1

 

Redirection must be set to use exactly the same set of

 

 

 

 

communication parameters.

 

 

 

Flow Control

None

Select the flow control for Serial Redirection.

 

Hardware

 

 

Software

 

 

 

 

Redirection After

Disabled

With Disabled Serial Redirection functionality is

BIOS POST

Boot Loader

disabled at the end of BIOS POST.

 

If set to Always, all resources and interrupts

 

Always

 

associated with Serial Redirection are protected and

 

 

 

 

not released to DOS. This option lets Serial

 

 

Redirection permanently reside at base memory

 

 

which allows the DOS console to be redirected. Note,

 

 

that graphics output (VGA, SVGA, etc) from DOS

 

 

programs is not redirected!

 

 

If set to Boot loader, Serial Redirection is active

 

 

during the OS boot loader process. This allows boot

 

 

status messages to be redirected, but Serial

 

 

Redirection will terminate when the OS loads.

 

 

 

Terminal Type

ANSI

Select the target terminal type.

 

VT100

Escape sequences representing keystrokes are sent to

 

VT-UTF8

the remote terminal based on these settings.

 

 

 

 

 

VT-UTF8

Disabled

This option enables VT-UFT8 combination key

Combination Key

Enabled

support for ANSI/ VT100 terminals.

Support

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sredir Memory

No Delay

Set the delay in seconds to display memory

Display Delay

Delay 1 Sec

information if serial redirection is enabled.

 

 

 

Delay 2 Sec

 

 

Delay 4 Sec

 

 

 

 

Serial Port BIOS

Disabled

Enable or disable the serial port BIOS update feature.

Update

Enabled

Disabling saves boot time.

 

 

 

 

 

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