-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/2013 03:13 PM, Christoph Vigano wrote: > > IIRC, by requesting KVMoIP you will get a serial console attached > to your server onto which you can logon and thus have access to a > serial console to your server, allowing you to view the boot > process, GRUB and stuff like that. > > If you have this, you only have to boot into the USB install stick > and install as you would usually do. > > The main point is that you should have serial access to your server > with KVMoIP :) > Thanks! This sheds some light. Linode includes something like this with all their VPS's--I forget what they call it, but it's definitely there and good to have for when you've *really* *screwed* *up*. ;-) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJRSSvGAAoJELJhbl/uPb4Sh5oP/0GPevt8rVdxxHeTevrdYles ywb/s9JDrJ81yFBe9ri1YlquseG1AWqCiVLfEDFJ4Lv8Hn7A9lQrBSIhmMgRShgY /Dy1fPEvAh9gxM5wikE0PvH+ivTzKUHnqeqKdsOXcVTXbDaD5UjJ/KaIkUnUl6R6 uHNzR1w5Hp6xqza5+Z3l8XRjx12QuIj09vzPfjIOEUOkFlgor1PYjJkf3IOpqHCK C4igwE9pREAsTvm1tKRnCxjB8FKU8ppV+FpmnsI0CufOnHhL2ZsDLK1Cp4aHUurw HpCMkhv8KNuBVqInZShtQ5Fap5+vGqkvJ+Z7OhBdFO/JBR1WSoZONMZNdij/1Bep tExn8a80Y+Fn8NhyI/X3HnxcnMRNOuHms8/9dXlJasoR1BfAyQH3Hl8ITLVBVPoV 4hVVL+vshC4Cw/xmWx5MU4kFUb4Cx7wsO4ee4Ur8+QA0jB+E2wgPF4qnR/SsfqUT vGDb+8ZTNKkvQD9yfr5QwfuRCzdeBQkMw8+FlYSnAcjqNTI3z8r6bqciZ1IdP/6o CFcc78HR0QHqVjQVwaLOXRi+QBI89jvQQmrnRtCQ6iUgB43XpfvKmAtBR9V60RfR 3xOukfOKcqBu+XR4+XU5zTS2Glzci9RlGquEFAJGB9POvNBp/BhoNNGjFIcteCdZ 8Aw5KRfTvGcL4gxmFUO4 =ouRD -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----