On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 04:55:05PM -0400, Sonic wrote: > Unfortunately that option isn't available for me. The IPMI SOL on this > Dell stops forwarding the console once the system boots.
The usb keyboard should still work when the bootloader is running, that's being handled by the BIOS. You just need to determine what port/baud rate the IPMI serial port is on your system, and when the bootloader shows up, just type for example: stty com1 115200 set tty com1 That will switch the bootloader to directly use the serial port, and when you boot the OS, it will do so as well. After these two commands, just 'boot -c' as usual to disable xhci, and continue on the serial port. Real servers don't need heads or keyboards ;). At least on my supermicro box, the default bios setting also allows me to type that on the IPMI serial console as well, in addition to the boot up messages it also forwards the bootloader by default, it doesn't stop forwarding until the OS itself loads. If you install over the serial console, the OS will by default be installed to use it too. So maybe you don't need that keyboard after all :).
