Re: [TCLUG:14044] serial consoles

[Chris McKinley <lamfada@lugh.net>]

While no special BIOS is required, there is a newer Phoenix BIOS which will 
recognize when there is no video / keyboard and send all subsequent output to 
the serial port.  I do not know of any others.

-Chris

On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Ben Kochie wrote:

> no.. no special bios is required for serial console, but you don't get to
> talk to the box via console untill the linux kernel is booting.  I have
> seen some DEC alpha motherboards that have BIOS support for serial
> consoles
> 
> Thank You,
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> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Dan Debertin wrote:
> 
> > We're trying to avoid KVM switches altogether here. We're used to having
> > access to the Sun serial console, and are trying to get the same thing on
> > the i386 Linux/FreeBSD boxes that we're looking at buying. I know that a
> > serial console is supported in both the Linux and FreeBSD kernels, but I
> > have the mysterious idea that this also requires a certain kind of BIOS
> > ..... the Phoenix BIOS comes to mind, and I think there are others. Can
> > anyone validate this/provide suggestions?
> > 
> > Thanks --
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