Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Tue, 26 Aug 1997 23:48:38 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl>
To:        jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon)
Cc:        mango@staff.communique.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: serial console
Message-ID:  <199708262148.XAA03132@yedi.iaf.nl>
In-Reply-To: <19970826143326.48713@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Aug 26, 97 02:33:26 pm

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
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 <F1> 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



Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?199708262148.XAA03132>