On Thu, Jan 03, 2002 at 08:12:47PM -0800, Mark K. Kim wrote: > Keywords: Grub, Minicom, serial ports, ttyS0 > > Question, Henry -- Why do you use Grub to log in remotely? Can't you just > use getty?
Because if the machine fails to come up after a reboot, I can't fix it without access to the bootloader's command interface. Grub is capable enough to do quite a bit before any OS is loaded, and it is only installed once, so it almost never breaks. -- Henry House The attached file is a digital signature. See <http://romana.hajhouse.org/pgp> for information. My OpenPGP key: <http://romana.hajhouse.org/hajhouse.asc>.
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