Re: boot w/o keyboard
On Sat, 2001-10-27 at 16:02, paul cannon wrote:
> Okay, here's one for you. When I boot one of my Ultra-5s without
> a keyboard plugged in, the OpenPROM switches to a serial console.
> Connecting a keyboard after this point has no effect; no input
> will be accepted from it or sent to the screen. This isn't good
> for me. I have them on a rack connected to a beowulf cluster, and
> I want to simply connect a keyboard and monitor when needed.
>
> What's worse is that the associated console devices don't seem to
> work. getty apparently dies immediately- in the daemon.log I get
>
> init: Id "1" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
>
> for all the virtual consoles. Is there a way to tell OpenPROM to
> just carry on normally if it can't find the keyboard?
well, you can set the input-device in the prom to keyboard, but I think
it fails over to serial console anyways. don't know how to stop it...\
this webpage has a bunch of info about openboot:
http://www.itworld.com/AppDev/616/UIR951001openboot/
you can get rid of these messages by simply removing the associated
lines in /etc/inittab 1:234:blahblahblah... for 1 through 6 and that
should get rid of the respawn messages. if you use a serial line, make
sure to uncomment the S0 line.
I would just recommend hooking up a serial MUX to your cluster and have
serial consoles on all the boxen. you can also use a vt and walk around
with this to plug into your machine when needed...
-tduffy
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