On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote: > On Fri, 19 Oct 2001, Rich Payne wrote: > > > The only other issue I've come accross is that most PCs can't redirect > > their BIOS output to the serial port (I gather some newer ones can finally > > do this), so you're waiting until LILO outputs something. > > Don't forget some of the "open-BIOS" projects that are in the cooking. > Never used one (yet), but I'm sorely tempted: ridiculously fast boot > times, console-to-serial port redirection, and a bunch of other goodies, > too. Linux Weekly News did a mini-write-up of them this week; check out > www.lwn.net/bigpage.phtml for more info and links.
Yes, they look quite interesting. The only draw back at the moment seems to be that you need a particluar motherboard, as the code has to be that specific. The company I work for actually did a similar thing for Alphas. I think we could be at the login prompt in <10 seconds, even less if we didn't init VGA. --rdp -- Rich Payne [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.alphalinux.org ********************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the following text in the *body* (*not* the subject line) of the letter: unsubscribe gnhlug **********************************************************
