Re: Motherboard design specifically for Linux

Henning P. Schmiedehausen (hps@tanstaafl.de)
23 Oct 1998 18:27:55 +0200


olaf@bigred.inka.de (Olaf Titz) writes:

>My #1 item: A BIOS that can reliably be configured and boot on a
>serial console, so you can assemble and run the box without even
>having a video card and keyboard.

>Should be able to boot from any SCSI device (CDROM, tape!) whichever
>happens to contain a boot sector on power-on.

>Then it would need a LM78 hardware monitor with all sensors actually
>connected, and its data format thoroughly documented.

"Get a SUN". :-)

Kind regards
Henning

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