Re: Headless SS2 + SS10

[Torbjorn Pettersson <tobbe@strul.nu>]

Jacques Richer <jricher@ids.net> writes:

> Dear Sirs,
>     I am sorry to bother but I haven't been able to find the answer
> anywhere else. I have both an SS10 and an SS2 running Debian 2.2R3, and
> neither seems capable of running headless. I wish to remove the monitor
> for the SS2 and use it as an Intranet webserver - keeping the monitor on
> the shelf as a spare. Unfortunately, when I power on the system without
> a monitor, it does not come up. Does anyone know if this can be easily
> corrected? If so, how?
> 
> 

I think you might be having two problems... And I'm guessing you
don't start with disconnecting the monitor, as you write, but
you start with disconnecting the keyboard?

1) How do you know it doesn't come up? You know the sun stuff
   with attaching input/output to serial port 'A' when keyboard is
   not attached, shutting down display totally, do you?

2) That also means that the standard inittab will not work very
   well if keyboard is detached, and eventually the machine will
   hang. Comment out gettys (in /etc/inittab)  on runlevel 1-6,
   and uncomment the T0 entry, for a serial console in 9600 baud
   on ttyS0.

Regards
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