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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!blackbush.xlink.net!news.dfn.de!fu-berlin.de!zrz.TU-Berlin.DE!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: serial port as console Date: 6 Jan 1996 19:16:09 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 24 Message-ID: <4cmhpp$eli@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <rfn382yn1t.fsf@puma.cs.byu.edu> <4cl561$p3b@agate.berkeley.edu> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.3 jkh@violet.berkeley.edu (Jordan K. Hubbard) writes: > >Is it possible to use FreeBSD in a configuration where there is no video > >card and only a serial port console? > > As long as your motherboard's BIOS doesn't have fits at the thought > of missing its VGA or keyboard, you can install a version of the boot > blocks which will go to the serial port first for the console. To the best of my knowledge, only AMI BIOSes can be configured to run without any video card. Btw., at least in FreeBSD 2.0.5 (i don't know for sure for 2.1), the default syscons console driver had a bug that prevented it from booting without a keyboard connected (at least on some hardware). This will only affect you if you intend to plug a dummy graphics adapter into your machine, of course. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)