[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
More information about the SunHELP
mailing list