How to receive BIOS console redirection?

[Hiroharu Tamaru]

At Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:45:15 -0500,
Douglas K. Rand wrote:
> 
> ** Hiroharu Tamaru <tamaru at myn.rcast.u-tokyo.ac.jp> on Sun, 15 Aug 2004 21:09:12 +0900
> ** in [Re: How to receive BIOS console redirection?] writes:
> 
> Hiroharu> And for 3ware RAID BIOS (entered with Alt-3), the menu is
> Hiroharu> entered (as verified on video console), but the output is
> Hiroharu> not redirected to the serial port, though, the keys I type
> Hiroharu> on the serial side are sent and recoganized by the RAID
> Hiroharu> BIOS.
> 
> We ran into a similar problem with the 3ware BIOS on a few systems of
> ours that have a PC Weasel card. The 3ware card swithces to graphics
> mode, and the serial forwarding can't handle the graphics. (I know, it
> still looks like text, but it's really graphics mode.) 3ware did this
> because of their 12 port controllers, they needed graphics mode to be
> able to get all the drives listed on the screen.

Ah, I see.  Well, if even PC Weasel can't handle it, surely,
there isn't much hope in getting that screen redirected..
'Goodness they provided most, if not all, functionalities in
3dmd.
-- 
Hiroharu Tamaru