Re: remote management

[brian moore <bem@cmc.net>]

On Fri, Dec 15, 2000 at 08:58:36AM +0100, Leen Besselink wrote:
> > Would this be a dial-in connection to the computer to manage it?  What I need is
> > to manage the computer remoteley all the way back to the lilo prompt.  Are there
> 
> Withut special hardware it's impossible to get to the Lilo prompt, after
> all Linux manages it's own serial ports and it hasn't even started then !
> :)

But LILO can talk to a serial port just fine.

serial=1,9600n8
append="console=ttyS1,9600"

You don't need special hardware to get to the BIOS even: you need a BIOS
that supports it.  (My rackmount machines, built by ASL, have BIOSes
that allow serial port access.)

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