From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Aug 26 15:42:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id PAA13817 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:42:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: from iafnl.es.iaf.nl (uucp@iafnl.es.iaf.nl [195.108.17.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id PAA13812 for ; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 15:42:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: by iafnl.es.iaf.nl with UUCP id AA29939 (5.67b/IDA-1.5 for hackers@FreeBSD.ORG); Wed, 27 Aug 1997 00:42:29 +0200 Received: (from wilko@localhost) by yedi.iaf.nl (8.8.5/8.6.12) id XAA03132; Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:48:38 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte Message-Id: <199708262148.XAA03132@yedi.iaf.nl> Subject: Re: serial console To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:48:38 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: mango@staff.communique.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19970826143326.48713@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Aug 26, 97 02:33:26 pm X-Organisation: Private FreeBSD site - Arnhem, The Netherlands X-Pgp-Info: PGP public key at 'finger wilko@freefall.freebsd.org' X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24 ME8a] 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 As Jonathan Lemon wrote... > On Aug 08, 1997 at 11:59:20AM -0500, 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 ? > > If you meant to ask: 'Can I boot and run my PC with a serial console > only, and no keyboard?', then yes. But check out if your system BIOS allows you this. Some BIOSes insist on a keyboard being present during the selftest. If a keyboard is lacking this often results in the famous 'No keyboard found, press to continue' .... message _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda