Output to serial terminal

little_willie · Thu Jan 16, 2003 9:03 pm

Is there some way to make the BIOS output it's POST messages to a serial terminal? Say a VT52 or VT100? Also is it possible to get into the BIOS setup through such a terminal?

Has someone considered a hack to do this?

This would of course be for the benefit of using a headless Linux or Unix server.

I am really not a programmer and I don't know if this is difficult or easy to achieve? Alternatively some sort of virtual display through the ethernet card could possibly do the trick ssh way?

sulbert · Fri Jan 17, 2003 2:39 pm

thickdick wrote:Is there some way to make the BIOS output it's POST messages to a serial terminal?

LinuxBIOShas this feature.

little_willie · Sat Jan 18, 2003 1:29 am

The link doesn't work?
Got another one?

little_willie · Sat Feb 01, 2003 3:22 pm

Found it here:

http://www.linuxbios.org/index.html

Thanks for the pointer.

Dick

Awbios · Wed Jan 22, 2014 2:55 pm

I know that this is old topic but for now this is possible with SGABIOS

. Look at this my topic on other forum