Re: Newbie Sparcstation 20 question

[James Whatever <james@giantrobot.co.nz>]

try appending video=sbus or video=promcon

On 07 Mar 2004, at 20:58, James Nelson wrote:

> Hartwig Atrops wrote:
>
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Friday 05 March 2004 21:36, James Nelson wrote:
> >
> > > I have a sparcstation 20 I am trying to install 3.0 stable onto, and
> > > have a question.  The system boots fine from the CD's, but it hangs 
> > > with
> > > a "no console found - try passing an init= option" error.  I have a
> > > GX-series SBus video card, and the only thing I could find after 
> > > quite a
> > > bit of Googling around is to use a serial terminal for installation. 
> > >  Is
> > > there any way to pass options to the install kernel via SILO so that 
> > > I
> > > can use the Sun keyboard & graphics adapter for the system console, 
> > > or
> > > should I go buy a Sun null modem cable?
> >
> > I installed Woody (= 3.0 stable) on some SS20 with SBUS and with 
> > onboard graphics,  never had to use a serial console ?!?
> >
> > I suggest to check your openboot environment.
> >
> > I don't have access to my SS20's until monday, if you still need 
> > help, feel free to contact me.
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> >   Hartwig
> I checked OpenBoot, and even tried the 'reset-defaults' command (after 
> munging the config pretty well) to no avail.  I'm baffled - I can't 
> seem to figure out what I'm overlooking...  but it's got to be 
> something simple...
>
>
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