Preliminaries
Configure ILO VSP to COM1
</>hpiLO-> power on # or </>hpiLO-> power reset
</>hpiLO-> vsp
rbsu> SET CONFIG Embedded Serial Port COM 2; IRQ3; IO: 2F8h-2FFh rbsu> SET CONFIG Virtual Serial Port COM 1; IRQ4; IO: 3F8h-3FFh rbsu> SET CONFIG BIOS Serial Console Port COM 1; IRQ4; IO: 3F8h-3FFh rbsu> SET IPL CD 1 rbsu> EXIT
Insert remote GRML CD image on webserver
mkdir /tmp/iloimg cat > iloimg-httpd.conf <<HERE ServerRoot "/tmp/iloimg" DocumentRoot "/tmp/iloimg" User nobody Group nobody PidFile /tmp/iloimg/httpd.pid ErrorLog error.log Listen *:5555 HERE # copy grml iso image to /tmp/iloimg /usr/sbin/httpd -f /tmp/iloimg/iloimg-httpd.conf -k start
</>hpiLO-> vm cdrom get </>hpiLO-> vm cdrom insert http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:5555/grml_2009.05.iso </>hpiLO-> vm cdrom set boot_always </>hpiLO-> power warm
Start GRML with serial console
Just type "serial" at grml boot loader prompt
Press [ESC] to show up grml boot loader prompt on vsp and than "serial"
* GRML 2017.05 on a host with a “real” serial port