[svlug] Motherboards w/ serial consoles?

[George Bonser]

On Wed, 18 Nov 1998, George Bonser wrote:

> 
> Is it mandatory to have a BIOS serial console or are you needing an OS
> serial console? THe Linux 2.1 kernels have a config option for serial
> console support and there is a patch for (some) 2.0.x kernels.

I suppose I should have paid a little more attention ... I have not seen a
serial BIOS console for several years. They seem to have gone out of
style. They were more popular on the older boards when video cards were
expensive.



George Bonser

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