| Linux-1U.net Consoles
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| Serial Consoles
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- Allows you to see and edit BIOS settings
- Allows you to remotely see your bootup messages at the colo
- your typical consumer-class x86 motherboard does NOT support remote serial console
- you will need to tweek things to get it to work right"
- your typical sun-class servers does support remote serial console
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| Serial Consoles Hardware
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RealWeasal.com PC Weasel ( $350 ? )
AMI.com/kvm KVM over IP
Devita.com AMI MegaRAC G2 ( $900 )
- Motherboards with Serial Console
- Terminal Servers - Concentrators ( multiple RS232 ports )
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| Some Serial Consoles Apps
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| Serial Console HOWTO
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Ibiblio.org Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
Linux.org Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
Linux.com Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
LinuxDig.com Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO
Debian.org Remote Server Management
Mail-Archive.com Remote server management
Cern.ch Low level Fabric Manangement ( comparison )
SourceForge.net LinuxConsole
Startx.Times.lv
Windley.com serial console howto
nonGnu.org FreeIPMI
ConServer.com
ConServer.com Mailing List Archive
Harvard.edu Console-Server
Eskimo.com STL - Serial Terminal Linux
- Keyboardless Booting -- Check the BIOS
- Disable keyboard/mouse checking/errors
- Halt-on-ALL but keyboard
- /etc/inittab Changes
- S0:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT19200 vt100
- syslinux.cfg Changes
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img lang= devfs=nomount ramdisk_size=8192 text console=ttyS0,9600n8
- /etc/lilo.conf Changes
# global
serial=0,9600n8
#
image=/boot/vmlinuz
append="console=tty0 console=ttyS0,9600n8"
- /boot/grub/menu.lst Changes
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| KVM - Keyboard-Video-Mouse Switch
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| Power Strip - Remote Reboot
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