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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!uunet!in1.uu.net!128.230.129.112!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!ais.net!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!venus.sun.com!uk-usenet.uk.sun.com!usenet From: Casper.Dik@Holland.Sun.COM (Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer) 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! Supersedes: <cancel.casper.869315965@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com> Date: 19 Jul 1997 12:34:10 GMT Organization: Sun Microsystems, Netherlands Lines: 15 Message-ID: <casper.869315965@uk-usenet.uk.sun.com> References: <rreiner.869242843@nexus.yorku.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: room101.holland.sun.com Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.sys.sun.admin:90158 comp.unix.admin:60696 comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6282 rreiner@nexus.yorku.ca (Richard Reiner) writes: >Problem: how to switch sparc 1+ to serial console (with any reasonable >but *known* serial port parameters) -- without seeing what I'm doing. Eitehr boot it and set the eeprom paramters over teh net or simply unplug the keyboard, that shoudl work too (or perhaps unplug kbd & remove framebuffer) Casper -- Expressed in this posting are my opinions. They are in no way related to opinions held by my employer, Sun Microsystems. Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may be fiction rather than truth.