Okay, so it seems upgrading to OH2.3.0-1 has solved the problem. I did have to reinstall the serial feature again, but thereafter the serial controller was added and it is now able to find the 29+ nodes that were originally deleted!
Okay, so it seems upgrading to OH2.3.0-1 has solved the problem. I did have to reinstall the serial feature again, but thereafter the serial controller was added and it is now able to find the 29+ nodes that were originally deleted!