@Taiidan, as much as I love all things libre, my budget doesn't come close to buying those motherboards :(. I like the idea of using another machine to view the grub serial. Maybe using a Raspberry Pi etc.
@ron, I assume you mean a livecd like alternative which I can connect to and use to debug the issue? The only problem I see with that is that I cannot see the issue with the machine as it boots so in the off chance that something in the distro is corrupted I won't be able to figure it out with interacting with a live boot session.
Out of curiosity, is this a limitation to what is possible in the BIOS or that nobody has found the need to do this sort of remote control using the BIOS yet?
On 4 October 2017 at 20:59, ron minnich rminnich@gmail.com wrote:
as always, your other other choice is to use linux in flash as a bootstrap, and then have the full spectrum of x-over-network solutions that you get from that. That's my new (old) approach nowadays.