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From: Paul de Weerd (paulmail.me.maar.nu)
Date: Tue May 01 2001 - 12:40:31 CDT

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    At 14:28 4/30/01 +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
    >On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 09:51:53AM -0700, Nicholas Janzen wrote:
    >> If I do this on the average i386 box, would I be able to remove the video
    >> card, or does the bios still need this to boot.
    >
    >Depends on the bios, it works on most boxes. I have tons of servers without
    >videocard here (incluyding nifty 1U boxes without space for them).

    I asked for exactly such a 1U box. It has room for 2 PCI devices only, so
    it would be a waste to spend one of those slots on a videocard. The bios in
    these boxes allows booting over a serial port (meaning you can enter your
    bios and see the POST etc. over a serial terminal).

    Thanks guys - now *everything* goes over com0 !

    Cheers,

    Paul de Weerd 

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