From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 13 06:25:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B680C16A41C for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from hub.org (hub.org [200.46.204.220]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E5C43D48 for ; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:25:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.144]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8163C64BDAC; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:25:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from hub.org ([200.46.204.220]) by localhost (av.hub.org [200.46.204.144]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 33441-06; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:25:10 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ganymede.hub.org (blk-224-176-51.eastlink.ca [24.224.176.51]) by hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A2B364BDAA; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:25:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 85A1339072; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:25:12 -0300 (ADT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ganymede.hub.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 81C92388F0; Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:25:12 -0300 (ADT) Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 03:25:12 -0300 (ADT) From: "Marc G. Fournier" To: Nikolas Britton In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <20050613032302.N90456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050612000357.W90456@ganymede.hub.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at hub.org Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: With all we can do in Unix ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 06:25:13 -0000 On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Nikolas Britton wrote: > On 6/11/05, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >> >> ... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? >> > > It's not impossible to view the BIOS settings in an OS but if you > changed the BIOS settings you would still need to reboot before the > changes take effect, so there isn't much point in editing the settings > with a live OS running. Also you normaly take card of the BIOS > settings "before" the server is in production use. In my case, I had a habit of disabling the serial ports on servers, since I never setup serial consoles ... my new servers, I do setup serial consoles on, but I'd like to get my old servers put online too, so would like to re-enable the serial ports on those :( > Are you wanting to edit the setting on a headless or hard to get at > system? if so then you want a motherboard that has console redirection. Oh, I have those motherboards also ... but, again, its only the newer servers that I've *had* something to plug them into, so I always disabled (or left it disabled) on the older machines :( Hindsight is 20-20 here ... ---- Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664