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On Jan 6, 2006, at 11:21 AM, Ralph Hempel wrote:

> Hmmm. The DRAC card can save you a long drive sometimes. You actually
> get to look at the hardware boot process and can even adjust
> BIOS settings if needed. To get to a FreeBSD console, I think that
> the OS actually needs to boot.

Dell's BIOS allows you to control and watch it via the serial port.