Syslinux - Sep 2003 - Headless/Cardless with isolinux ??

Hello Family,

I'm trying to help with a problem where there is a
headless/cardless server and we need to create an isolinux image
that points the display to the serial port.

The original machine that is using this has the ability in the
bios to redirect its video to /dev/ttyS0 or such but the
machines I have access to do NOT have that ability built into
the bios.

[question]

Is there a way in "isolinux" to redirect video output to the
serial port(s) when the bios by default does not allow such?

Thanks

Bill Schoolcraft wrote:
> Hello Family,
> 
> I'm trying to help with a problem where there is a
> headless/cardless server and we need to create an isolinux image
> that points the display to the serial port.
> 
> The original machine that is using this has the ability in the
> bios to redirect its video to /dev/ttyS0 or such but the
> machines I have access to do NOT have that ability built into
> the bios.
> 
> [question]
> 
> Is there a way in "isolinux" to redirect video output to the
> serial port(s) when the bios by default does not allow such?
> 
You can't "redirect video output", or "point the display to
the serial
port", but you can direct ISOLINUX' output to the serial port by
putting
the SERIAL command in the configuration file.  See the docs.

	-hpa