[ale] Serial consoles

[David Hamm]

I tried the keyboard trick one time during the 1.X kernels and linux seemed to
need a keyboard on boot.  I've been told that there is a null keyboard plug but
where you'd get it I'm not sure.


On 17-Jan-97 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

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E-Mail: David Hamm <dhamm at itserve.com>
Date: 17-Jan-97
Time: 17:00:36

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