[ale] Serial consoles

[David Chow]

George A. Nies wrote:
> lou wrote:
> > I would like to run a pc under linux w/o a keyboard connected and without a
> > video card and monitor. Will a pc boot correctly without a video card? How
> > would I redirect the boot messages to a serial port. This box will be a
> > network server and the video will (hopefully) be unused. Is there a version
> > of lilo that would do this? Thanks for your time.
> > 
> > /dev/lpr
> 
> I'm not sure how to redirect the boot messages to a serial port, but
> klogd and syslogd capture most of the information in /var/adm/messages
> 
> As for no video and no keyboard, that is easy.
> If you set the video type to none in the bios and set the keyboard to
> not installed, the pc should boot normally.
> 
> 	-George
> 
	I would like to add that not all BIOSes support that...
  some of the old pheonix ones won't let you do that... you end up
  having to stick an old keyboard on it.

  dave


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