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- Path: sparky!uunet!dtint!tom
- From: tom@dtint.uucp (Thomas R. Kimpton)
- Subject: Re: Booting sparc from serial port
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.172517.833@dtint.uucp>
- Organization: Digital Technology, International
- References: <8428@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
- Date: Tue, 8 Sep 92 17:25:17 GMT
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- In article <8428@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie) writes:
- >
- >Can one boot a sparcstation without a frame buffer from a serial port ?
- >This is a pretty obvious question, and one could ask why, but I
- >presume it is possible ... I would want to boot the mini-root off
- >the CDROM and then set up the sparcstation from there ...
- >
- >--
- >David Clunie (dclunie@itd.adelaide.edu.au)
-
- Check out the "eeprom" command. It allows you to set the console
- to "b&w or ttya or ttyb or color". I'm not sure if this works on
- SLC's or ELC's. You can also set the serial port parameters using
- eeprom.
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