[plug] laptop screen/keyboard/mouse 2 control the server?

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Wed Jun 23 18:01:12 WST 2004


bob wrote:

> "The PC Weasel provides the answer by emulating a video board and keyboard 
> and presenting a serial port to the outside world.

I guess that'd be useful if you needed BIOS access and didn't have a 
good quality server mobo that'd give it to you over a serial console 
directly.

For under Linux you get the same functionality built in via the 
'console=' boot argument and a one-line tweak to inittab.

It also has the advantage of not being REALLY SCARY like that device.

--
Craig Ringer




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