From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 26 9:52:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from durango.picus.com (durango.picus.com [209.100.20.19]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63E4F37BE7D for ; Fri, 26 May 2000 09:52:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from troy@picus.com) Received: from arcadia [209.100.20.198] by durango.picus.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id AB7EC0B011C; Fri, 26 May 2000 12:51:10 -0400 From: "Troy Settle" To: , Subject: RE: running headless Date: Fri, 26 May 2000 12:54:42 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 In-Reply-To: <20000524133247.A37808@sirius.hq.netzmarkt.de> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Intel has some... don't remember the exact models though. IIRC, they typically have video, ethernet, paralell, and 1 serial onboard. -Troy ** -----Original Message----- ** From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Sven Huster ** Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 7:33 AM ** To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG ** Subject: Re: running headless ** ** ** by the way, does anybody knew about a x86-based motherboard, ** which supports serial access to BIOS etc. ** ** so it could be run completely without any keyboard and graphics ** even on installation. ** ** thanks ** sven ** ** On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 12:06:46AM -0400, Crist J. Clark wrote: ** > On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 11:55:16AM -0700, Gary Kline wrote: ** > > According to Troy Settle: ** > > > ** > > > I've got 5 or 6 boxes running headless. I don't do ** anything special with ** > > > the kernel. ** > > > ** > > ** > > Do you do anything to getty or anything else in /etc so ** > > that getty isn't continually trying to spawn a tty for ** > > the console? ** > > ** > > Seems to me that I got complaints trying to boot without ** > > a keyboard once... ** > > ** > > It'd be nice if I could move my othre CRT//keyboard away ** > > and boot without things blowing up (!) ** > ** > That's your BIOS. It has nothing to do with the kernel (since you ** > never actually get to booting it). Go into the BIOS and try to find an ** > option to "Boot on error" or something about booting without ** > keyboards. ** ** ** ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org ** with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message ** To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message