Serial console capable BIOSes?

Toni Schmidbauer toni at stderror.at
Mon Jul 11 22:22:56 GMT 2005


On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 11:17:14AM -0700, Steve Brown wrote:
> Does anyone have recommendations for motherboards (P3 or P4) with good
> BIOS serial console support that plays nicely with FreeBSD running a
> serial console on the same port?  Basically, I'd like to monitor the 
> pre-BSD boot process and the BSD boot process from a terminal window on 
> another machine.

we are using a sun v20z, which work's nice with 5.x. it's a rebranded
newisys maschine and serial over lan works like charm.

hth,
toni
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