[H-GEN] sun Console
James McPherson
jmcphers at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au
Mon Jun 7 01:15:36 EDT 1999
(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs James McPherson <jmcphers at laurel.ocs.mq.edu.au>)
Craig Armour writes:
> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Craig Armour <c.armour at kings.uq.edu.au>)
>
> > That looks like SunOS 4.x.
>
> bingo 4.1.1 How you can tell that from the disk detection is beyound
> me... :)
sounds like you haven't been paying attention ;) Solaris doesn't print any
messages about swap space on boot. Oh, and the other messages that you
included in your posts just look different ;)
> > Suns will boot using the serial settings in the NVRAM and switch to the
> > settings for the console (stored in a file in /etc) part way through the
> > boot.
> >
> > I must have been using Solaris for too long, I can't remember what file
> > contains those settings for SunOS 4.x.
>
> and I didn't try looking for it. but what was hapening is it was
> ruuning at 8-n-1 at boot then switching to 7-E-1 for console.. :? first
> step... remove sunos 4 ;) the only problem then is the inital stuff is
> blurbed then clear... which I guess is more important... If I could be
> bothered... I'd change the setting mid boot sequence but I can't be
> so...
didn't try booting from cdrom with a serial console? I'm pretty darn sure that
the solaris boot process doesn't fsck with the serial port settings along the
way. And don't forget that solaris is {solaris+sysv+openwindows|cde} ;)
cheers,
James
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