[SunHELP] VGA Card, Term Server, and Console Port Question(s)

[Wolfgang Engelien]

At 04:49 PM 5/23/01 +0200, you wrote:
>On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 06:46:46AM -0700, Ann Waters wrote:
>> Hi Listers,
>> 
>> I am responsible for remotely supporting a bunch of Sun servers ....
>
>The ttya port will be the "true" console if the machine is booted up without
>a keyboard, if its booted up with a keyboard it will assume it have a monitor
>and use it as a console.  Alt. you can specify the "input-device" and
>"output-device" in the OBP to "ttya", but that would make the 
>keyboard/monitor quite useless.. :)

ON THE CONTRARY!!!!
At least on an Ultra2 this works well AND YOU CAN USE THE MONITOR AND
KEYBOARD while having the input/output-device in OBP set to ttya.

The only difference is that you do not get the startup messages
on the monitor and the monitor is blank until the machine is ready
for logins. (And off course, the Stop-A does not work on the keyboard
anymore.)

Wolfgang