On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: > > Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it? What I > > need is > > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt. Are > > there > > Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to the Lilo prompt, after > all Linux manages it's own serial ports and it hasn't even started then ! > :)
But LILO can talk to a serial port just fine. serial=1,9600n8 append="console=ttyS1,9600" You don't need special hardware to get to the BIOS even: you need a BIOS that supports it. (My rackmount machines, built by ASL, have BIOSes that allow serial port access.) -- CueCat decoder .signature by Larry Wall: #!/usr/bin/perl -n printf "Serial: %s Type: %s Code: %s\n", map { tr/a-zA-Z0-9+-/ -_/; $_ = unpack 'u', chr(32 + length()*3/4) . $_; s/\0+$//; $_ ^= "C" x length; } /\.([^.]+)/g;