David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>  wrote:
 > On Tue, Jan 18, 2000 at 05:45:46PM -0800, Jonathan Stone wrote:
 > > In message <20000118210856.F21588@fundy.ca>, David Maxwell writes:
 > > >Serial bootblocks are needed if you want to be able to select a kernel,
 > > >or boot options (-s) via serial.
 > > 
 > > That turns out not to be the case. Recent Intel server motherboards
 > > can redirect BIOS I/O to the serial port. Works fine for bootblocks,
 > > too.
 > 
 > Fair enough. The vast majority of people don't have Recent Intel server
 > motherboards though - my comments were meant to be generic.

not to mention that many peripheral manufacturers assume 'display adapter'
and even worse, 'VGA display adapter'.  So while you may be able to see
into the BIOS, you can't configure your RAID controller...

(I won't include the gratuitous plug here)