Hi all,

Is there a way to get a (text) console on the X4200 when using the
ILOM card? I know I can use the web doohickey to get a graphical
console (I've used it a few times), but is there an ILOM equivelent
of ALOM's "console [-f]" command? In other words, is it possible
to ssh into the ILOM, and from there get a console login prompt?
The docs are kinda quiet about this, and I haven't found much from
my poking around, so I guess not. But it would be nice if someone
could confirm this one way or another. (As useful as it is at times,
firing up a browser just to get a console login doesn't strike me a
very convenient...)

I can sort of get what I want by running "start /SP/console", but
apart from seeing the messages while the machine is booting, I
can't get it to do what I want. (Running start /SP/console while
the machine is up does nothing after telling me to hit ESC ( to
stop.) The last thing that appears in the window while the machine
is booting is the message
from the kernel:

kernel /platform/i86pc/multiboot
[Multiboot-elf, <0x1000000:0x1468b:0x3941d>, shtab=0x104e258, entry=0x1000000]
module /platform/i86pc/boot_archive

So, no message about the hostname etc., and no login: prompt.

I even tried disabling the X login stuff, using dtconfig -d, but that
didn't help.

Is it even possible to do what I want on these machines (have I been
spoiled by ALOM)?

TIA,

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