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From: bouyer@antifer.ipv6.lip6.fr (Manuel BOUYER)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.admin,comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Sparc/NetBSD: Switching to serial console when you *really* have to!
Date: 18 Jul 1997 17:39:32 GMT
Organization: Universites Paris VI/Paris VII - France
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Richard Reiner (rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca) wrote:
> Scenario: old SparcStation 1+ box. Running NetBSD. CG6 framebuffer
> driving ancient Sun monitor. Monitor *died* and cannot be resurrected.
> Replacement cost of monitor very high relative to value of system.
>
> Proposed solution: use serial console.
>
> Problem: how to switch sparc 1+ to serial console (with any reasonable
> but *known* serial port parameters) -- without seeing what I'm doing.
>
> Request: boot PROM keystroke sequence to accomplish the above blindly.
> First keystrokes will of course be 'n ENTER' to enter 'new' mode in the
> boot PROM ... and then what?
>
> Alternate request: any other solution to above situation.
I may be wrong, but I think that if you power on the ss1 without
kerboard, it will automatically use ttya as console ...
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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI. Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
{Net,Free}BSD: 21 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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