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- From: lichtin@olsen.ch (Martin Lichtin)
- Subject: Re: Booting sparc from serial port
- Message-ID: <BuCs32.EMu@olsen.ch>
- Organization: Olsen & Associates, Zurich, Switzerland
- References: <8428@sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au> <1992Sep8.172517.833@dtint.uucp> <1992Sep09.023353.7432@uhura.neoucom.edu>
- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 08:11:21 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep09.023353.7432@uhura.neoucom.edu> wtm@uhura.neoucom.edu (Bill Mayhew) writes:
- >I noticed on my IPC that if I yank the keyboard, the console port
- >defaults to ttya for both input and output. It is not necessary to
- >remove the frame buffer card. This behavior may vary depending on
- >model and openprom version.
- >
- >Alternatively, you can go into the eeprom (L1-A while booting up),
- >go to new mode. From new mode, do a printenv to note the current
- >settings. Do a setenv to change the settings as desired. You can
- >setenv the input-device and output-device. Reboot the system to
- >effect the changes.
-
- Here, I would like to ask if it's also feasible to have the console
- redirected to /dev/ttya but still be able to use the keyboard and the
- monitor?
-
- Martin.
-
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