[gull] motherboard with serial console BIOS

[Erik Rossen]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 09:02:50AM +0100, Christophe DONZELOT wrote:
> Erik Rossen wrote:
> >I am looking for a good, solid server motherboard with the following
> >features:
> >
> >1. Good Linux support.  (i.e. all hardware on the board is supported
> >with vanilla 2.4.x Linux kernels.)
> >
> >2a. A BIOS that supports a serial console
> >
> >OR
> >
> >2b. Is known to work with LinuxBIOS (http://www.linuxbios.org)
> >
> >Apart from Sun users, does anyone around here use a BIOS serial console?
> >
> >
> Asus TR-DLS have a serial console parameter in the bios.
> It is a dual P-III mobo compliant with intel SMP v1.4.
> It is based on a Serverworks chipset , It is working very well under 
> debian woody.
> This mainboard have 2 scsi controlers connected to the pci64 bus, it is 
> really a performer.

Well, it looks nice
(http://usa.asus.com/prog/spec.asp?m=TR-DLS&langs=09), but it has one
fault - it is too old (~2001) to easily find.

Perhaps I should add the following to my wishlist:

3. Available.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Erik Rossen
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