Most standard x86 boxes don't have a serial-port-accessible BIOS. My understanding is that Sun has boxes that will use a serial console for interacting with the BIOS. It's generally considered a server-class feature. A couple items I found: -Compaq seems to offer (or have offered in the past) an x86 server with serial BIOS. The only details I could find were in this PDF: ftp://ftp.compaq.com/pub/products/servers/management/smartstart/bios-serialconsole.pdf -Certain Tyan motherboards (antiquated?) seem to support a BIOS option that, once configured the first time, allows for serial access to the BIOS. This link has some suggested motherboards that have serial support in the BIOS http://linux-1u.net/SerialConsole/ -it also sounds like the OpenBIOS project has support for serial consoles, but I haven't toyed with that. Just a few ideas, -tim _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list