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Configuring the Server
Complete the following steps to configure the Windows 2003 operating system
for SOL operation. You must be logged in as a user with administrator access
to perform this procedure.
Ê Determine which boot entry ID to modify:
Ê Type bootcfg at a Windows command prompt; then, press Enter to
display the current boot options for the server.
Ê In the Boot Entries section, locate the boot entry ID for the section with
an OS friendly name of Windows Server 2003, Standard. Write down the
boot entry ID for use in the next step.
Ê To enable the Microsoft Windows Emergency Management System (EMS),
at a Windows command prompt, type bootcfg /EMS ON /PORT COM1
/BAUD 19200 /ID boot_id where boot_id is the boot entry ID from the last
step; then, press Enter.
Ê To verify that the EMS console is redirected to the COM2 serial port:
Ê Type bootcfg at a Windows command prompt; then, press Enter to
display the current boot options for the server.
Ê Verify the following changes to the bootcfg settings:
In the Boot Loader Settings section, make sure that redirect is
set to COM2 and that redirectbaudrate is set to 19200.
In the Boot Entries section, make sure that the OS Load Options:
line has /redirect appended to the end of it.
The following examples show the original bootcfg program output and the
output after modification.
Original bootcfg program output
Boot Loader Settings
----------------------------
timeout: 30
default: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
Boot Entries
----------------
Boot entry ID: 1
OS Friendly Name: Windows Server 2003, Standard
Path: multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
OS Load Options: /fastdetect
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