[rescue] The best 'rescue' workstation

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Wed Apr 27 11:18:05 CDT 2005


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:22:38AM -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> >I have three machines (two P4s, one Xeon) here that are happy to use a
> >serial console.  Granted, you need a KVM for first boot to set it to
> >serial console, and you need to do something fancy to make RHEL install
> >without graphics (I'm told a special boot floppy or CD will do the
> >trick, but I just left the KVM on until after the OS was installed)...
> 
> Are they a real serial BIOS, or is it using screen control to present 
> the same display you'd see on a graphics console?

Probably the later.

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