> I have several SunBlade 2000 systems that have bad Serial A/console
> ports. I have verified that they are bad as I've tested with known good
> cables and hyperterm clients.
That sounds quite odd. Out of thousands of machines I've touched, I
think I've seen one or two with bad serial ports. That you have
"several" is *very* unusual.
> There is no keyboard/monitor connected.
> I've checked the eeprom settings for both ttya and ttyb, which look
> normal (9600,8,n,1,-). Luckily the system does boot, so I can look and
> change things from OS prompt.
>
> Does anyone know how I can change the default console from ttya to ttyb
> (ie serial port A to serial port B)? It is important that console
> messages be set to ttyb during POST as well (ie before OS is booted) and
> that it accept input from that serial port. I tried playing with "eeprom
> input-device ttyb" and "eeprom output-device ttyb", but no luck.
That should be 'eeprom input-device=ttyb' and so forth.
SPARC
/usr/platform/ platform-name /sbin/eeprom [-] [-f device] [
parameter [=value]]
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Darren Dunham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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