by rupe

How do I boot my Sparc Classic/Sparc Classic X/Sparc 5/Sparc 10 without a keyboard or monitor?

This answer comes from Frank Sweetser, rasmusin@paramount.ind.wpi.edu, in The Linux Hardware Archive:

mnz4@hotmail.com writes:

> hi,
> 
>   I want to set up a Sparc/Linux cluster.. How do I configure Sparc Classic/
> Sparc 5/Sparc 10 so that it would not attempt to detect keyboard/mouse upon >    power-on ?

if you unplug the monitory and keyboard, and plug a VT into the first
serial port, the detection will fail, and it'll switch over to using a
serial console.

 


 
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