[Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500

Gregory Leblanc GLeblanc at cu-portland.edu
Tue Mar 21 23:57:12 CST 2000


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Bradford [mailto:mrbill at mrbill.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 21, 2000 9:44 PM
> To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] Rack mount E3500
> 
> 
> On Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 09:11:21PM -0800, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> > Couldn't you force the boot output to the serial console, 
> and have it act as
> > the console?  
> 
> In the ROM:
> 
> setenv input-device ttya
> setenv output-device ttya
> 
> But then your keyboard and monitor are useless.

D'oh!  I hadn't realized that part...  Guess that limits their usefulness.
Kind of makes it a pain to hang a keyboard/mouse/monitor off the machine for
work, and still have a console on the machine for when you want/need to sit
in front of it.  
	Greg






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