[rescue] offtopic.. sunmanagers kind of Q

[Big Endian]

>On Wed, May 22, 2002 at 11:17:02PM +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
>>
>>  Unplug the keyboard and it will boot using Serial-A as console;  not that
>>  it's going to care whether there is actually a glass-screen connected to the
>>  end of it.
>>
>>  OTOH, if there *is* a console plugged in, check it doesn't cause a break if
>>  you disconnect, otherwise the machine will drop to PROM and appear to hang.
>
>no, he's talking about something completely different.  i know, because it
>happens to me.  solaris gets part of the way booted and then hangs, with
>nothing plugged into the machine, no terminal, no keyboard, no video.  the
>very *split second* that i plug the VT into it, it continues 
>booting.  my other
>sparc20 doesn't exhibit this behavior.

YES!  ok... atleast I know I'm not nuts.

daniel
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