On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 01:00:31PM +0100, Tony Cowderoy wrote: > Does anyone know an inexpensive way of setting up IP-based remote > console access? I would like to set up keyboard/video access to a > remote machine, that will let me can access it at BIOS/boot loader level > from home (i.e. before the operating system loads).
The only cheap way I know of doing this is to buy servers that support BIOS serial redirection from the start. There is a thing called a PC Weasel which does work, but it costs a lot of money and takes up an ISA/PCI slot. Without that you either have to buy an expensive IP KVM thing (which will often make you access it with java applets and other horrors), or else settle for only seeing the machine from the bootloader (grub/lilo) onwards. grub onwards is better than nothing though, and only requires a serial connection to another computer. -- http://strugglers.net/wiki/Xen_hosting -- A Xen VPS hosting hobby Encrypted mail welcome - keyid 0x604DE5DB
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