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- From: olson@anchor.esd.sgi.com (Dave Olson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
- Subject: Re: Booting w/o keyboard
- Message-ID: <u6oq6ps@zuni.esd.sgi.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 07:36:44 GMT
- References: <C006nn.J5L@iat.holonet.net>
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- Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc. Mountain View, CA
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- In <C006nn.J5L@iat.holonet.net> cmumford@iat.holonet.net (Chris Mumford) writes:
-
- | How do I boot a 310VGX without a keyboard plugged in?
-
- With an ASCII terminal, or set the console to 'd' in the nvram,
- and the bootmode to automatic (probably 'c' for the 310). For
- newer PROMs, setting 'nogfxkbd' in the nvram would allow the system
- to boot with console=G even if no keyboard is present. This is
- mostly Indigos, although late proms for the 4x0 and crimson series
- may also support it.
-
- Unlike our NeWS based systems, X will come up on the console independent
- of the nvram console location, assuming it is configured on (as it
- is by default).
-
- If you don't actually have an ascii terminal attached, you miss
- all the boot messages, and if X won't come up (or the system doesn't
- come up far enough to start it), you will have to dig up an ascii
- terminal from somewhere to see what is going on.
-
- As to *how* to stop in the PROM monitor without a keyboard, you
- are going to have to disconnect the graphics, and hook up an ascii
- terminal or equivalent, unless the system is up now, in which
- case you can use the /etc/nvram command as root to change the
- relevant variables.
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- because whoever is silent dissents. | Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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