Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2005 00:27:56 -0500 From: Nikolas Britton <nikolas.britton@gmail.com> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: With all we can do in Unix ... Message-ID: <ef10de9a05061222276ca01606@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20050612000357.W90456@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050612000357.W90456@ganymede.hub.org>
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On 6/11/05, Marc G. Fournier <scrappy@hub.org> wrote: >=20 > ... why is it impossible to view/edit the BIOS while the server is live? >=20 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. 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.
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