Re: Console on serial A

[Harald Geiger]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2001 at 04:17:19PM -0600, Alvaro F. Figueroa Cabezas wrote:
> > I'm trying to get a couple of Ultra-5s and an Ultra 10 to send the console
> > via serial A.  WHat do I need to do?  On Intel machines I need a new kernel.
> 
> > Is this necessary on debian?
> s/debian/sparc
> 
> You could do it at a PROM level, instead of a kernel level.
> 
> Go to de prom, and set up the prom variables "output-device" and
> "input-device" to "ttyb" (the 9 pin serial) or to "ttya".

Or the prom variables "input-device" on "keyboard" and
"output-device" on "screen" and deconnect the keyboard.

If the SUN does not find a keyboard in fall back to using
ttya as the console.

Harald

Re: Console on serial A

[Alvaro F. Figueroa Cabezas]

> I'm trying to get a couple of Ultra-5s and an Ultra 10 to send the console
> via serial A.  WHat do I need to do?  On Intel machines I need a new kernel.

> Is this necessary on debian?
s/debian/sparc

You could do it at a PROM level, instead of a kernel level.

Go to de prom, and set up the prom variables "output-device" and
"input-device" to "ttyb" (the 9 pin serial) or to "ttya".

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