Boot without Keyboard/mouse
Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :) Daniel On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
Yes, that's completely true and that's how I run all of mine. OTOH, it's a bit hard to do the install but I guess the orig poster can just put the keyboard and display on for the install and then remove them. It's handy to have a null modem cable sitting around if something goes wrong though. It solves the I turned it on 10 mins ago and it still doesn't respond to ping problem... cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:58:08PM +0200, Daniel Liikamaa wrote: You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :) Daniel On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Boot without Keyboard/mouse
Greetings, all, Just FYI, this works just fine on the E4500s as well. There are two serial ports, so you have to be sure to get port A, but other than that, works great. Full agreement with Bruce, doing the install via the serial port is actually not possible (MUST use a second virtual terminal to 'modprobe esp.o'), so I used the keyboard/mouse/monitor for the install, but they are not used under normal conditions. Wenton L. Davis Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, that's completely true and that's how I run all of mine. OTOH, it's a bit hard to do the install but I guess the orig poster can just put the keyboard and display on for the install and then remove them. It's handy to have a null modem cable sitting around if something goes wrong though. It solves the "I turned it on 10 mins ago and it still doesn't respond to ping" problem... cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 08:58:08PM +0200, Daniel Liikamaa wrote: You can boot the machine without keyboard/mouse even if you don't connect a null modem cable to the serial port. You just won't have a hardware console, that's all. This has worked with my Ultra10 and my SB100, which I have run as firewalls in my closet. :) Daniel On tis, 2006-08-22 at 18:44 +, Bruce O'Neel wrote: Yes, no problem. Hook a null modem cable to the serial port on the back (it's the one labeled A if there is more than one, I don't have a 5) and it should work. This is called a serial console in the Sun world and a google search on that will get you loads of info. cheers bruce On Tue, Aug 22, 2006 at 07:42:21PM +0200, Andrea Modesto Rossi wrote: Hello world, i've this problem. At home i've 2 ultra Sparc 5 but ONLY ONE keyboard and sunmouse;one of this machine is my Firewall/router. Well,is it possible to start the boot without keyboard/mouse?with a normal PC i386 i search the command into the BIOSbut with Solaris OpenBoot??? Thanks a lot.. -- Andrea Modesto Rossi Services Ariadne Tel. +39 0382-408911 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] SDF Public Access UNIX System - http://sdf.lonestar.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
