Re: Booting over serial

[Paul de Weerd <paul@mail.me.maar.nu>]

At 14:28 4/30/01 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
>On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0700, Nicholas Janzen wrote:
>> If I do this on the average i386 box, would I be able to remove the video
>> card, or does the bios still need this to boot.
>
>Depends on the bios, it works on most boxes. I have tons of servers without
>videocard here (incluyding nifty 1U boxes without space for them).

I asked for exactly such a 1U box. It has room for 2 PCI devices only, so
it would be a waste to spend one of those slots on a videocard. The bios in
these boxes allows booting over a serial port (meaning you can enter your
bios and see the POST etc. over a serial terminal).

Thanks guys - now *everything* goes over com0 !

Cheers,

Paul de Weerd
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