keyboardless, headless suggestion

Chris Adams cmadams at hiwaay.net
Fri Jan 23 19:14:01 UTC 2004


Once upon a time, Paul Morgan <paul.morgan at jumanjihouse.com> said:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 07:39:52AM -0500, Neal D. Becker wrote:
> > for a server.  Is there anything special I would need to do to boot up
> > Fedora on such a device, with no monitor, keyboard, or mouse attached?  (I
> > know the monitor and mouse should not be a problem, but in the past I've
> > seen machines that wouldn't pass POST without a keyboard).
> 
> Here's a worthy link: http://rajeevnet.com/linux/grub_serial_console.html

If you do a serial console for install (add "text console=ttyS0,115200"
to the boot options), anaconda has been smart enough for the last few
Red Hat releases to automatically set up GRUB and /etc/inittab for
serial console support.

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Chris Adams <cmadams at hiwaay.net>
Systems and Network Administrator - HiWAAY Internet Services
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