🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 07 Dec 2006 16:33:05 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
> The point on this one its not remote..its by my knee, tucked under the 
> desk..telnet and a web browser are all it needs to do the routine stiff.

That's the one thing I hate the most about the PC - the fact that you
can't have a serial console until *after* the OS has started booting. It's
bloody annoying as a serial console's so useful for servers in order to
save space (and for convenience!), but you're screwed when the BIOS
decides to have a bad day :(  (I've run a few linux boxes with serial
console only in my time)

I'm not sure if anyone's ever built a 'serial video card' for these sorts
of situations. Technically it should be possible as a PC should still boot
up in a text mode and should still support text-only display adapters for
legacy reasons (not that I've tried one for years), but I don't know if
it's ever been done. 

Niche market, I suppose, because real servers were never PCs anyway, and
so manufacturers could assume that their machines were on a desktop and
hence had some form of display card and monitor anyway..

cheers

Jules

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