/REDIRECT

Introduced with Windows XP. Used to cause Windows to enable Emergency Management Services (EMS) that reports boot information and accepts system management commands through a serial port. Specify serial port and baudrate used in conjunction with EMS with redirect= and redirectbaudrate= lines in the [boot loader] section of the Boot.ini file.

Use this switch to turn on Emergency Management Services (EMS) on a Windows Server 2003, Enterprise Edition-based computer. For additional information about EMS, search on "Emergency Management Services" in Windows Help and Support.

To turn on EMS by editing the Boot.ini on an x86-based computer, edit both the [boot loader] section and the [operating systems] section of the Boot.ini file. To do this, configure the following entries:

• Under [boot loader], add one of the following required statements: redirect=COMxIn this statement, replace x with one of the following COM port numbers:
  
  1
  2
  3
  4
  
  redirect=USEBIOSSETTINGSThis statement permits the computer BIOS to determine the COM port to use for EMS.
• Under [boot loader], add the following option statement:redirectbaudrate=baudrateReplace baudrate with one of the following values:
  
  9600
  19200
  57600
  115200
  
  By default, EMS uses the 9600 Kbps baud rate setting.
• Under [operating systems], add the /redirect option to the operating system entry that you want to configure to use EMS. The following example illustrates the use of these switches: [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS redirect=COM1 redirectbaudrate=19200 [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, Enterprise" /fastdetect multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Windows Server 2003, EMS" /fastdetect /redirect