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- From: lupe@ukw.uucp (Lupe Christoph)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: Booting sparc from serial port
- Message-ID: <1992Sep6.122149.5209@ukw.uucp>
- Date: 6 Sep 92 12:21:49 GMT
- References: <8428@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au>
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- dclunie@ucs.adelaide.edu.au (David Clunie) writes:
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- >Can one boot a sparcstation without a frame buffer from a serial port ?
- I don't suppose you want to load the kernel from the serial line :-)
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- >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 ...
-
- Yes, this is possible. Disconnect the keyboard as well as the
- frame buffer. Connect a terminal to ttya. Switch on. Everything
- should work unless you have twiddled the NVRAM settings.
-
- BTW, Sun is selling something called a SPARCserver 2. This is
- a SPARCstation 2 without frame buffer, monitor, keyboard and mouse.
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