On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 07:33:41AM -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I think I lost a graphics card during the night. It's my main machine > and I don't have ssh running on it. Is there a way to boot from one of > the cd distros headlessly and then ssh in from the outside? > > Either that or I guess I'll try to find another PCI card to test in it > before I go purchase one.
I don't suppose you left a getty running on a serial port and can use a serial console? I don't suppose you have any boot floppy (or equiv) already set up to use a serial console? I don't know of any LiveCD that has sshd set up and listening by default (where you could just boot and go). However, setting up a serial console is a simple kernel command line. Presumably you have access to a computer with a display or sending this email would have been difficult. Use your working box as a serial console for your behedded one. Look up the remote-serial-console-HOWTO (either in the doc-linux package or online at tldp.org. Now that I think about it, it may be the case that the debian installer, if not video card is found, will automatically look for a serial console on the first serial port, 9600n81. That may be worth a try. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
