On Mon, 26 Jul 2004, Bill Clark wrote:
Remote serial consoles allow access to the systems
during boot, but
might not be supported by the BIOS. I think this is worth looking
into, since the APC power switches aren't much use in diagnosing a
machine that hangs during boot.
We've discussed this several times before... most, if not all, of the
servers in the farm are capable of BIOS redirection.. the BIOS is
displayed on screen and to a serial port at the same time. GRUB supports
serial terminals on it's own.
(I use these things everyday on my own machines.)
--Ricky