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Re: ddb input via IPMI virtual console
ef%math.uni-bonn.de@localhost (Edgar =?iso-8859-1?B?RnXf?=) writes:
>It looks like my IPMI implementation always emulates a USB keyboard on
>the virtual console. The real keyboards are PS/2 and I can't change that
>because it runs on a wire physically passing a /real/ firewall, e. g.
>a constructive element of the building designed to confine a possible fire
>in the server room. It's close to prohibitively expensive to install another
>(USB) cable through that and I didn't think about it when I orderd power,
>VGA and PS/2 cables to be routed through the firewall.
IPMI is a serial console. You could just tell the kernel to use it and console
and DDB will be independent of the VGA graphics.
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Michael van Elst
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