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Date:      Fri, 26 May 2000 12:54:42 -0400
From:      "Troy Settle" <troy@picus.com>
To:        <shup@netzmarkt.de>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   RE: running headless
Message-ID:  <NIEBLEDADLBOBAJFKPHDEEFCCAAA.troy@picus.com>
In-Reply-To: <20000524133247.A37808@sirius.hq.netzmarkt.de>

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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.
** 
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