I have a low-end Dell PowerEdge 650 (1U Celeron) that supports setting the serial port to act as a terminal console in bios. Haven't played with it yet, but the option is there.
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 09:59, Lee wrote: > Jason Tower wrote: > > >management is also different from most linux setups. since it has no IP > >addresses on either interface, you can't ssh to it. instead, you ssh > >to another host and run minicom which communicates with the firewall > >via a serial port. this particular hardware has the ability to direct > >the bios display to a serial port, so you can actually see the bootup > >info and even change bios options remotely. pretty slick :-) > > > > > Jason, > What hardware did you use? x86's lack of ability to have a true serial > console has always irked me. Unless of course you used one of those > add-in cards that translates the kb/video into serial. -- David A. Cafaro <dac(at)cafaro.net> Sys Admin to User: "You did what?!?" -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
