On Wednesday 17 January 2007 19:47, Joachim Schipper wrote: > Why not? If you set the system console device to some non-existent com1, > as you state above, and disable most everything in /etc/ttys, wouldn't > you be able to make sure the system doesn't use the vga port?
I wa thinking of the messages that the BIOS itself usuallt outputs and that those would interfere with whatever device is connected. setting tty to com1 apparently doesn't work either. --- Lars Hansson