On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 05:25:22PM -0400, Brian Mathis wrote: > > With remote console, > you might be able to get in, but I'm not sure if the other gettys are > running before the fsck starts. With a true serial console you get access to ''the'' console, where the message about proceeding with the fsck would normally appear. The remote serial console HOWTO is old but covers this ground fairly well: http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Remote-Serial-Console-HOWTO/index.html It addresses getting access to the BIOS, the bootloader, and the kernel / getty, so you have access to pretty much the entire boot process. This has saved my bacon quite a few times. Serial console aggregators run less than $1000, and you can ssh into them to get access to a given console. On mine, for example, I might do ssh admin:deadbox at serial-console.example.com to get to deadbox's console. --keith -- kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110427/885ed55a/attachment-0002.sig>