On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 09:37:15AM +0100, Paul Bijnens wrote: > Maybe the [Sun box's] console contains a useful error message [...] > E.g. connect a serial line to a PC with a terminal emulation (Hyperterm > on Windows, or Kermit on Linux) having a very large screen history > buffer.
I don't know your box, only our much more ancient Suns. On those, here's how it works: - Power off the system - Connect the terminal to the *first* serial port (on our boxes, it's labelled "A") - 9600-8-N-1 - *Disconnect* the Sun keyboard This has to be done with the power off. Besides the usual concern about frying the hardware, it's only at power-up time, when the POST detects the missing keyboard, that the boot ROM switches to serial-console mode. Maybe you already know this stuff; if so, consider this post as being for the benefit of the archives :-) -- | | /\ |-_|/ > Eric Siegerman, Toronto, Ont. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | / The animal that coils in a circle is the serpent; that's why so many cults and myths of the serpent exist, because it's hard to represent the return of the sun by the coiling of a hippopotamus. - Umberto Eco, "Foucault's Pendulum"