On Monday, February 23, 2004, at 11:02 PM, Mike M wrote:
If I understand you correctly, you have no VGA + keyboard console and
you only have a serial port. You want to reload the machine using the serial port?
This is very very common if you're on non-PC hardware. Most of my machines are sparc, hp-parisc and alpha. The only monitor is hooked up to my PC which is running minicom and a big null modem cable that I move from machine to machine.
My employer just gave me the external components to a 16 port Digiboard setup, and the internal PCI card is coming when we move the data center this summer and have an opportunity to take the card out of the server that is no longer using it. That will make life so much nicer as I can get to most of my machines without having to move any cables around.
Like Kevin (partly) pointed out, the serial console is only really used for loading the OS and doing any sort of troubleshooting in a "network down" scenario. Once the host is up and on the network, ssh'ing in is the better interface.
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