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Re: How did tty booting work?

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On 10/04/13 14:45, Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com wrote:
> AFAIK, at any stage you can  redirect StdOut to any device. So can't I
 > boot the rPi 'blind' and then call a script to `talk out via the
 > driver that I've made for a type of par-port`? == TIA.

well the nub is in the 'booting blind' bit.

I have a server that 'boots blind' until such stage as I can telnet into it.

Until it doesn't.

Then I have to hook a monitor to it to find out WHY..
  Because the PC bios, grub and the early sages of boot all talk to a 
primitive device called a 'keyboard' and a 'VGA screen'

And until Linux is loaded, that's all that is happening..or CAN happen.

changing the boot system on the pi to get booting to parport is another 
game entirely

But if it's an embedded device to do a job and you expect it to always 
boot reliably anyway in the same way that e.,g. a router does, until its 
web server is up - then what you propose is of course just fine. 
Although for my money I'd use telnet on a DOS PC if it came to that, or 
stuff a stripped out  linux on it and an old ethernet card if its that old.

Assuming the PI has an ethernet port as standard of course


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How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-09 11:22 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-09 07:54 -0500
    Re: How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-10 13:45 +0000
      Re: How did tty booting work? Johann Klammer <klammerj@NOSPAM.a1.net> - 2013-04-10 16:43 +0200
      Re: How did tty booting work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-10 16:01 +0100
        Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-10 10:11 -0500
          Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-10 15:15 +0000
            Re: How did tty booting work? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-10 16:44 +0100
              Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-10 16:12 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? Avoid9Pdf@gmail.com - 2013-04-11 14:36 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? gazelle@shell.xmission.com (Kenny McCormack) - 2013-04-11 19:16 +0000
                Re: How did tty booting work? albert@spenarnc.xs4all.nl (Albert van der Horst) - 2013-04-29 12:26 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Rikishi42 <skunkworks@rikishi42.net> - 2013-04-09 23:31 +0200
    Re: How did tty booting work? Unknown <dog@gmail.com> - 2013-04-17 18:21 +0000
  Re: How did tty booting work? Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2013-04-13 00:34 +0000
    Re: How did tty booting work? Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2013-04-12 22:34 -0400
      Re: How did tty booting work? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2013-04-13 03:57 +0100
    Re: How did tty booting work? Richard Kettlewell <rjk@greenend.org.uk> - 2013-04-13 09:14 +0100
      Re: How did tty booting work? Robert Heller <heller@deepsoft.com> - 2013-04-13 07:41 -0500
        Re: How did tty booting work? Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2013-04-13 10:19 -0600

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