Thank you. I will pop the video card out of this system and see if anything works better, assuming the system will boot in this condition. This is a reasonably new Pentium, probably 3 or 4 years old. It definitely should be in the FAQ. I have been using Linux for 3 years and I wasn't really sure what possibilities existed for serial installations. This is great to know. Martin "L. C. Robinson" writes: >This is not Debian specific. It's a kernel feature. At the boot >prompt you add: >console=<device> >to your normal boot line; <device> should be the device you are using >(such as ttyS0 or ttyS1). > >The kernel documentation has a file called serial-console.txt >which gives more detail, including that fact that if you have no >video card, the console will default to the first available >serial port. This has come up many times on this list, so you >can get more from the list archives: perhaps something about this >should be in the blinux FAQ? > >LCR > >-- >L. C. Robinson >reply to no_spam+munged_lcr@onewest.net.invalid > >People buy MicroShaft for compatibility, but get incompatibility and >instability instead. This is award winning "innovation". Find >out how MS holds your data hostage with "The *Lens*"; see >"CyberSnare" at http://www.netaction.org/msoft/cybersnare.html > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Blinux-list@redhat.com >https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list >