On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 16:38:54 +0100
Sebastian Krohn <seb@gaia.sunn.de> wrote:

> 
> Hi!
> 
> Harry Waddell wrote:
> >>Whenn you use the serial bootblock, all kernel messages are printed on
> >>the serial console (even if you don't have one).
> 
> That exactly what I searched for - thanks!
> 
> > If you use serial boot blocks, the "regular" keboard and monitor won't
> > have getty, X, etc available on them because the console will be on the
> > serial port. I believe you just get a blank screen.
> 
> I'm using wscons to get a login - it's working fine.
> 

I hadn't even considered that. My servers out number my workstations, so I
tend to forget about things like wscons sometimes. 

-- 
Harry Waddell
Caravan Electronic Publishing