From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Jan 24 07:57:21 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA16406 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:57:21 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xpert.com (xpert.com [199.203.132.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id HAA16397 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 07:57:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from elijah@xpert.com) Received: from xpert.com ([199.203.132.116]) by xpert.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA04023 for ; Sun, 24 Jan 1999 17:57:04 +0200 Message-ID: <36AB4469.AA152F60@xpert.com> Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1999 18:03:53 +0200 From: Elijah Kagan Reply-To: ekagan@usa.net X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc To: freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Alternative BIOS Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello all, I was wondering whether anyone has ever seen an alternative BIOS for Intel based servers that allows using serial port as a console, and not VGA. Something like Sun's eprom that can detect an absence of console and redirect all input/output to a terminal. And if so, does it work with Linux and/or FreeBSD. Thanks, Elijah Kagan PS Please, reply to me personally as well as to the group since I do not monitor them regularly. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message