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- From: cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer)
- Subject: Re: How does one boot a Sun 2 without a video card?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.095349.10229@wavehh.hanse.de>
- Organization: Private UUCP, Martin Cracauer, Norderstedt, Germany
- References: <BzM5LI.9x@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 09:53:49 GMT
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- rflukes@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Richard F. Lukes) writes:
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- >I am trying to boot a Sun 2 (68010) system which has no video
- >subsystem. I would like to attach a VT100 to one of the CPU's
- >serial lines and use that as a console. How do I go about doing
- >this? Do I need special boot PROM's? (I have both versions of the
- >Sun 2 CPU board.)
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- No problem at all. If no video card is detected, your SUN will use any
- terminal attached to serial A.
- You should unplug the SUN's keyboard, too.
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