OK second try installing the machine this time from an Ubuntu Dapper iso-image. This time i configured the management network interface which i hoped to be faster on console access than the serial console. Nope, it isn’t its even worse: Since i have it running in an xterm the output is colored, that is colored output at 9600 baud per second — do you remember your old mailboxing times? ;-)

My only hope is that it is the server version of the image and its main menu has a section that says ‘Shell access’.

Btw. even if i’m not logged in via the serial console at all the system console says ser_baudrate is a read-only value when i try to setsc it.

Dear Sun, this is really really annoying — please do something about it.