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Name: Andrea Martano
Date: January 3, 2002 at 14:20:33 Pacific
Subject: booting w/o keyboard & monitor
Comment:

I installed a SS5 with Solaris 8. The system boots fine with keyboard and monitor but I can't make it boot w/o them. The system hangs after the initial bootstrap when connected through the serial port and monitored from another system (tip in a shell). Any idea on how to get it boot correctly?.
thanks all.


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Response Number 1
Name: Mark M
Date: January 29, 2002 at 21:14:09 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

I've not had to do this myself but a quick search on the net yields:

REQUIREMENTS FOR BOOTING WITHOUT A KEYBOARD

The following steps are required to get the system to boot without a
keyboard attached.
Halt the system and at the "{1} ok" prompt, type the following (in bold):
{1} ok setenv input-device ttya
input-device = ttya
{1} ok setenv output-device ttya
output-device = ttya
{1} ok reset
The system will begin to boot, so remove the keyboard.

The system will continue to function without a keyboard even thru reboots
and power cycles.


REQUIREMENTS FOR BOOTING WITH A KEYBOARD

However, should you wish to use a keyboard and monitor with either of these
boxes int the future, then you must reset the NVRAM (Non-Volatile Random
Access Memory)
as follows:

Reboot the system, and during the reboot, press and hold Stop-N (as in
Nancy). This resets the NVRAM and puts the system back into the state where
it wants to have a keyboard and monitor. You must now attach the keyboard
and monitor, since the system will now , not fully boot without them .
Later on, of course, since you will want to remove the keyboard and monitor
to run "headless" once again, the steps in SECTION A must be performed.

Hope this is what you're looking for :)


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Response Number 2
Name: K. Yik
Date: July 10, 2002 at 00:51:31 Pacific
Reply: (edit)

Hi mark, once I set the input-device to ttya then the keyboard are no longer working in the open boot time. That's mean I am not able to stop-a or stop-n. And only can change back the setting by using the eeprom in Solaris Unix prompt.

How about if the Solaris Unix server crash? then, the keyboard will no longer work?

Thank you.


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