Article View: comp.sys.sun
Article #9763Re: Running Suns with no keyboard but using both rs232
From: Guy Harris
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 05:26
Date: Tue, 20 Dec 1988 05:26
15 lines
1289 bytes
1289 bytes
>i think the machine always has to have a console, no matter what. The machine always has to have a console, no matter what. This is true of most UNIX systems, and probably of a lot of non-UNIX "general purpose" OSes out there as well. >if neither of these are possible, you might see if there's a way to set >the eeprom to use /dev/null as console, Unfortunately, the PROM monitor doesn't know "/dev/null" from a hole in the ground, so even if you could somehow set up the EEPROM so that UNIX thought it was to use "/dev/null" as the console (you can't - according to <mon/eeprom.h>, the only alternatives are tty port A or B, the B&W monitor, the color monitor, or the P4 monitor), you couldn't get the PROM monitor to do so.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<682@auspex.UUCP>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-requestReferences:
<8811270038.AA18959@calvin.sybase.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!husc6!rice!sun-spots-request From: auspex!guy@uunet.uu.net (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Re: Running Suns with no keyboard but using both rs232 Message-ID: <682@auspex.UUCP> Date: 20 Dec 88 05:26:26 GMT References: <8811270038.AA18959@calvin.sybase.com> Sender: usenet@rice.edu Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 15 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu Original-Date: 11 Dec 88 05:51:19 GMT X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 7, Issue 63, message 3 of 11