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- From: hanson@pogo.fnal.gov (Steve Hanson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun.hardware
- Subject: Re: How does one boot a Sun 2 without a video card?
- Date: 24 Dec 92 19:37:37 GMT
- Organization: FERMILAB, Batavia, IL
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- Message-ID: <hanson.725225857@pogo>
- References: <BzM5LI.9x@ccu.umanitoba.ca> <1992Dec22.095349.10229@wavehh.hanse.de>
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- In <1992Dec22.095349.10229@wavehh.hanse.de> cracauer@wavehh.hanse.de (Martin Cracauer) writes:
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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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- Small correction - it will use ttya if it doesn't detect a KEYBOARD.
- You don't need to pull the video card. Just unplug the keyboard.
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- Steve Hanson - FERMILAB, Batavia, Il.
- hanson@pogo.fnal.gov or hanson@fnal.fnal.gov
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