From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 18 08:21:30 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA07378 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:21:30 -0800 Received: from cs.weber.edu (cs.weber.edu [137.190.16.16]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id IAA07372 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:21:26 -0800 Received: by cs.weber.edu (4.1/SMI-4.1.1) id AA01711; Wed, 18 Jan 95 09:15:07 MST From: terry@cs.weber.edu (Terry Lambert) Message-Id: <9501181615.AA01711@cs.weber.edu> Subject: Re: serial consoles and keyboard probes To: jkh@freefall.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Date: Wed, 18 Jan 95 9:15:07 MST Cc: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu, bde@zeta.org.au, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <8334.790404614@freefall.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at Jan 17, 95 08:50:14 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4dev PL52] Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > I really like this serial console stuff! Being able to actually > install off a terminal should make the process control weenies very > happy! :-) I've been following this discussion (under the topic "headless"). I think the early posting mentioning that this configuration will be impossible to support on some BIOS revisions needs to be noted in the DOC somewhere. Wherever the feature is advertised, actually. In a previos message in this thread, it was noted that the AMI BIOS was the only one *known* to not throw up without a video card. Also, there was a discussion of bypassing the keyboard probe by adjusting a CMOS setting to "uninstalled". The documentation accompanying the changes ought to note this information, as well as noting how the heck one would put the CMOS back to an installed keyboard without an installed keyboard, should it become necessary. Terry Lambert terry@cs.weber.edu --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.