[PLUG] Serial console with grub

Ed Sawicki ed at alcpress.com
Sat Jun 1 07:24:43 UTC 2002


On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 22:32, Kevin Hammack wrote:
> On 31 May 2002 22:07:30 -0700
> Ed Sawicki <ed at alcpress.com> wrote:

I didn't write this. Paul did.
Ed


> I spent the last week building a linux system using grub to boot through
> a serial console.  This is for a system that is not on the market yet. 
> Why do this for a new system, in this day and age?  Not all computers
> come with video cards.  When you have an array of computers that are
> just workhorses, why pay for video cards on each when you won't use
> them?
> 
> Incidentally:
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/
> 
> 
> -kev






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