[gentoo-user] Re: remote installation, dual boot

[james <wireless@tampabay.rr.com>]

Stefan G. Weichinger <lists <at> xunil.at> writes:

> 
> On 23.04.2015 17:43, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote:
> 
> > I will see if I get that figured out ... got to get the kernel-options
> > and dracut modules right.
> 
> first try started booting but couldn't mount rootfs ... and now the box
> hangs there and I can't press the power button (only PS/2 attached
> keyboard/mouse)
> 
> got to wait for the folks there to come to work tmrw 


There are methods to get the console terminal session, remotely.
One, is called "netconsole" [1]. I use to use this sort of thing
decades ago. How it is currently supported and the associated codes
(ssh) to use it remotely, I have not kept up with. Some headless embedded
system still use this sort of thing; with holes punched in the
routers/firewalls.....

I've also heard of folks setting up a serial console over serial-2-usb
converter, like ftdi, and then making a terminal session connection
form a remote cell phone to another cell phone, to tunnel an ascii
terminal session. I've never done this, but I'd be really curious how
somebody makes that sort of 9600 baud terminal connection to a remote
router or server, via a serial/console port.... using cell phones
as modems.

hth,
James



[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/networking/netconsole.txt

[2] http://www.mjmwired.net/kernel/Documentation/serial-console.txt