[TriLUG] Drop and insert transparent firewall (OpenBSD)

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 10:32, Aaron S. Joyner wrote:
>   It's a Dell / Intel motherboard, 
> and most of the Intel server boards provide the ability to push the BIOS 
> out the serial port.  I use it on the Intel server boards, ala the Intel 
> S875WP1 and it's siblings.  Generally, you don't want to use the BIOS 
> functionality of trying to force the entire OS out the serial port.  
> Just setup the BIOS to use the serial port, then the kernel to output to 
> the serial port, and once it's up and running put a Getty on the serial 
> port.  Fairly straight forward.
> 

Does LILO/grub have an option to output on the serial port?  Otherwise
that would be one step that would be missing between the BIOS
self-check/utility and the kernel boot.

--Jeremy

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