On Wed, 2008-08-06 at 13:58 -0700, Chris Cappuccio wrote: > spend your money on a motherboard with serial console. like a supermicro > board or something. you'll be happier.
No offense but: No. No you wont. Unless you have IPMI or something like Dell's DRAC (4, not 5 -- 5 sux big time). The AMI/Award BIOS serial console features on the market are _really_ bad. No hot-key sequences, no watchdog timer, and they don't actually simulate a VGA->Serial conversion (so the OS _still_ needs to know about the serial console) -- "redirection after boot" almost never works for kernels that draw the framebuffer instead of using BIOS calls to write kernel messages. Its bad out there. PC Weasel needs to sell off/lease that technology to MB vendors. ~BAS
