Glenn <glennervin at gmail.com> wrote: >How does a serial port give access to the BIOS? Some systems have serial console access to the BIOS, which emulates a VT100 terminal over the serial line. What I am discussing here is BIOS over LAN rather than over serial port, which requires IPMI 2.0 and can be accessed with ipmitools. >I knew that if you have an embosser with a synth built-in, you could do a >print screen in BIOS, and hear what is on the screen, but I did not know >that there is a way to the BIOS via the serial port. Well, it requires a BIOS written to support serial access. Those are available on certain machines.
