From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 26 12:02:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA00502 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:02:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from casparc.ppp.net (mail.ppp.net [194.64.12.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA00495 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 12:02:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ernie by casparc.ppp.net with uucp (Smail3.1.28.1 #1) id m0x3QsM-000oEcC; Tue, 26 Aug 97 21:02 MET DST Received: from bert.kts.org(really [194.55.156.2]) by ernie.kts.org via sendmail with smtp id for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:31:59 +0200 (MET DST) (Smail-3.2.0.91 1997-Jan-14 #2 built 1997-Feb-8) Received: by bert.kts.org via sendmail with stdio id for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:24:51 +0200 (CEST) (Smail-3.2.0.94 1997-Apr-22 #7 built 1997-Jul-4) Message-Id: From: hm@kts.org (Hellmuth Michaelis) Subject: Re: serial console In-Reply-To: from Raul Zighelboim at "Aug 26, 97 11:59:20 am" To: mango@staff.communique.net (Raul Zighelboim) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 20:24:51 +0200 (CEST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Organization: Kitchen Table Systems Reply-To: hm@kts.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31H (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Raul Zighelboim wrote: > Does anyone knows of a PC BIOS that will send boot information to a > serial console (and accept keyboar imput from the serial console instead > of the local graphic/keyboard combination ? AFAIK (some) Hewlett-Packard Netservers will allow you to do this. hellmuth -- Hellmuth Michaelis hm@kts.org Hamburg, Europe "Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk. And those who can't talk, talk about talking." (B. Shaw)