[rescue] SPARC Serial Console

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Oct 26 22:19:59 CDT 2002


On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 11:08 PM, Bill Vinson wrote:
> Should I be able to see anything on the serial console for the SPARC 5
> that has no memory in it?  Or does the firmware only boot when memory 
> is
> on the board?  Just curious before I start considering buying ram :)

   You need RAM...it'll act as dumb as a windows box without it.

> Also, I assume 'SERIAL A' is the proper choice for
> console?

   This is correct...It can be changed, however, but people rarely 
change it.  It should be 9600 8/N/1.

      -Dave

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