On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:06:09AM -0400, Lamar Owen wrote: > (after a fashion) at boot. There is a LinuxBIOS project already out there, > though. I just looked at that a few weeks ago - it doesn't seem to have reached critical mass. Would sure be nice. heck, i'd settle for getting serial-bios capability out of commodity motherboards. "server" systems (and maybe high-end "workstation" motherboards) have it but things like the via c3 boxes i have posted about before generally don't. danno -- dan pritts - systems administrator - internet2 734/352-4953 office 734/834-7224 mobile