the fans start, there are messages about them being ok; as well as the ss command says the processors are on and initialized. the power light is solid green, the system light is flashing green ("non-os code" according to vfp), the hard drive spins up and then waits, there are two solid green lights in the mp unit, whereas there was only one lit when only one power cable was plugged in. the serial console device on the mp dongle only responds to ctrl-b, prompting for login to the mp. the serial a device only responds to esc-(, prompting for the bmc password. the vga never turns on, monitor works fine on the comp used for serial connection. we have another one of these rx2600s rhat "just works" i.e. the boot menu comes up on the vga device about 30 seconds after power on. the visible difference between the two is that the bmc does not list the serial (PCI UART :(bus e0/700)/PCI(1|1)Uart(9600 N81)/VenMsg(Vt100+)) as Output or Input, only vga. according to an "important note" in one of the manuals linked above, it's very crucial to have only one device selected for console interaction: multiple can cause the appearance of system hang, which sounds exactly like what i'm seeing. everything i've read says use the boot menu to select/change this, which is the problem: the boot menu continues to elude me.
