On Thu, Jul 01, 2010 at 06:00:41AM -0700, Paul Goyette wrote: > There is a serial port, but I haven't figured out yet how to make it > work in the BIOS. And while I do have other machines with serial ports > I've never used those ports and don't even have serial cables! (The > last time I used a serial cable was way back in the days of modems and > dial-up 'net access!)
Heh. You do need a serial cable and another computer, but it's not too hard to set up. You don't need to find any options in the BIOS if you install the right boot blocks. > The "pause every N calls" is probably over-kill - I'd be happy to pause > on every call, if there is an appropriate pause() function that can be > called at this early part of the boot process. You could always do a simple spin-loop. Assuming this is a temporary thing you're doing for a single (or limited number of) system(s). -allen -- Allen Briggs - bri...@ninthwonder.com