By the way, the PC Weasel 2000 is the only option I know of which includes
the ability to power-off even when the machine is hung.

Jon

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Steve Lee wrote:

> thanks. that is awsome.
>
>
> On Wed, 22 May 2002, Jonathan Bartlett wrote:
>
> > > anyone know of brand of products so i can have remote
> > > console access to both LINUX and SPARC Boxes.
> > >
> > > I'am looking for a way to be able to reboot the boxes,
> > > look at the system as it boots to trouble shoot in the
> > > bios if needed, anything i can do from the console.
> >
> > I didn't see this answered anywhere, so I'm sorry if this is redundant.
> > Anyway, the way you go depends on what kind of hardware you have.
> >
> > You basically need a controller box to handle the reboots, which basically
> > just has a serial port and a minicom session per box.
> >
> > For Solaris, it's easy, just hook up a null-modem connection between your
> > Sparc serial port A and a controller box.  Don't include a graphic card or
> > keyboard on this box.
> >
> > For x86 Linux, you have a few options:
> >
> > a) for crappy hardware, it depends on whether or not you want to be able
> > to see the BIOS messages.  If you don't mind not being able to mess with
> > the BIOS, you can simply put the following line in /etc/inittab:
> >
> > S1:12345:respawn:/sbin/getty ttyS0 DT19200 vt100
> >
> > and the following line in lilo.conf (or whatever the GRUB equivalent is)
> >
> > append=" console=tty0 console=ttyS0,19200N8 "
> >
> > This will get you all of your boot messages, and start a console.
> > However, to see your BIOS messages, you will need a hardware
> > implementation.  Check out the "PC Weasel 2000" for information about this
> > - http://www.realweasel.com/ - this basically redirects keyboard and
> > character-based-video through a serial port, so you don't need any of the
> > modifications above (although you can do it for better performance).
> >
> > b) On newer intel server boards, I believe there is an option to shove the
> > character-based stuff through the serial ports anyway, just like a "real"
> > server.
> >
> > Let me know if you need more info.
> >
> > Jonathan Bartlett
> >
> > >
> > > This hardware will be needed to support both linux
> > > and solaris on sparc.
> > >
> > > Thanks guys.
> > >
> > >
> > >
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