On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:55:59AM +1000, Daniel Carosone wrote:
> How important is physical location? I can offer serial console and
> (with a little fiddling) remote power control on a P4-D .. Dell,
> possibly with the same broken BIOS.  I'm not certain how much serial
> BIOS support it has, though it's supposedly a "server" (SC430).  I
> have a bunch of other rackmount dell servers which I know do have
> serial bios+IPMI that could be made accessible, though i'm not sure
> offhand which are 64-bit capable.

Physical access would be useful in some case, but I think the serial
port can be revived early enough that it isn't necessary. The biggest
remaining issue is remote power cycling.

Joerg