Comments on: CentOS 6, iDrac6 and PowerEdge R510

By: Dean

Dean — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:34:39 +0000

Excellent article! I am able to watch the server boot up process and even access the BIOS and RAID configuration, but once the Os boots and I am prompted for a username the output on the redirceted console goes blank.

Any ideas why the console goes blank when connecting via the redirection at this point?

I am using a Dell R515 (AMD version of the R510), CentOS 6.2 and iDRAC6 Enterprise. The server is booting to a command line, not the Gnome desktop. Cheers!

By: ammon

ammon — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:12:43 +0000

I updated the post to fix the missing commands. The instructions are basically taken directly from the Dell Docs: http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/software/smdrac3/idrac/idrac10mono/en/ug/html/racugc3.htm

By: cja

cja — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:33:26 +0000

In reply to ammon. What key do you press to get into the BIOS during POST? In your description above the key is shown as a gray square ... Thanks!

By: ammon

ammon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:07:42 +0000

In reply to confiton. Glad to help out.

By: ammon

ammon — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:07:30 +0000

In reply to haekal. Hi Haekal, Sometimes this is a problem with the baud rate not matching in the various places it is set. I'd double check the grub.conf, /etc/init/serial-ttyS1.conf, and BIOS settings again for the same baud rate. I've also had luck changing it to a lower setting. Sometimes 9600 works.

By: confiton

confiton — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 22:16:32 +0000

Thanks to share this “vato” …

vato = “homie”

By: haekal

haekal — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:26:02 +0000

Hi ammon,
i have one R710 running idrac6 on Centos.
Everythings running okay. i even can reboot/shutdown my server thru remote browser. but my problem is Virtual Console..i can see the server console but i can’t pass the keyboard input. please help. thanks bro!