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Re: New SGI R5k 180MHz



On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 03:57:17PM +0200, Guido Guenther wrote:
> As far as I know you have to tell the Indy explicitly in the PROM that
> you want to use a serial console by setting "console=d1" instead of
> "console=g", I don't know of a way to do this without having a screen
> attached though.

No problem with typeing blind :)

Break the boot processing by hitting esc hard - After that you are in
the "select procedure now" - 5 should be the console. 

esc-5

setenv console d1

reset

Now the machine should come up with serial console :)

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                  flo@rfc822.org             +49-5201-669912
                        Heisenberg may have been here.

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