On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 11:33:15PM +0000, The Fungi wrote: > On Sat, Feb 04, 2006 at 08:29:21PM +0100, Hartwig Atrops wrote: > > > setenv console s1 > > > > I changed the environment parameter from console=g to console=s1 today. > > > > Without keyboard (and mouse) the machine does not boot (and the monitor > > stays > > dark). No ping response. With keyboard attached, it boots. Mouse does not > > work, I cannot select the menue item to set console to g again. > > > > What now? > > What you have done is to put the console on the serial port. Without > a serial terminal or another machine to act as a terminal emulator, > this may not have been what you really wanted. If you do want to run > it headless and have another machine act as a serial console on it, > you'll need an 8-pin mini-DIN serial cable for the port on the Indy > (same kind that older Macintosh computers used for connecting an > external modem) and a null-modem adaptor and possibly gender/size > changers from there to whatever kind of serial port is on the other > machine running the terminal emulator. I am not aware of a way to > break into the PROM monitor from the KVM when the console is set to > the serial port, but that's not to say there isn't one.
There is a jumper on the Indy's mainboard near the Clock/Battery block. Switch the Indy off, open it, short the jumper, and power it on; this will it force to boot in console mode PROM. Then switch the console back to "g", power the machine down, open the jumper, an close the box again. Thiemo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
