[Gllug] just a quick question

[Dan Kolb]

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:50:08PM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> "Martin A. Brooks" writes:
> 
> >Yep.  HP server kit has proper serial BIOSes these days.  I believe even 
> >the cheaper H^HDell stuff does, too. All x86 blades have it too. As does 
> >the Sun x86 kit I was installing last week.
> 
> Really? Last time I tried, you needed to buy an extra Remote Insight
> PCI card in order to get remote access with HP kit (for the Compaq
> derived stuff, at least). Even then, it's browser based, rather than
> being a proper serial console. But it's still beside the point. The

Yes. I remember using BIOS-over-serial console on some Dell rackmount servers
back in 2002/2003. It even got to the point of seeing Win2000 start to boot
before the system switched into graphical mode (and then VNC took over for
remote admin purposes)

Dan
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