serial video output

2007-12-25 11:26:00

ORIGINAL POST:

Sun Managers,

I tried connecting a PC based terminal program (COMit) with the serial

output of a headless SPARCstation 20 (Solaris 2.4) so I could log in.

I ended up crashing the machine. Has anyone done this before with

success?

This was performed as a trial run before I tried the same thing on

our new E3K, which has never been booted. Does anyone have any

experience in this?

Any help would be appreciated.

SUMMARY:

My problem was twofold. First, I didn't put the serial port splitter

on my A/B port. Therefore my serial connection was bunk from the start.

Secondly, when I made the initial connection, a break must have been

issued by my terminal program at invokation. This is essentially like

issuing a L1-A or Stop-A to the system - bad.

SOLUTION:

Connect the serial splitter cable to the A/B port

Connect the PC terminal program to the serial splitter

startup the terminal program and get the PROM prompt

everything works great

My deepest thanks to all those who responded and took extra steps to

resolve the problem offline.

seanm@sybase.com (Sean McInerney)

Stephen Harris <sweh@mpn.com>

szh@zcon.com (Syed Zaeem Hosain)

Kevin.Sheehan@uniq.com.au (Kevin Sheehan {Consulting Poster Child})

nobroin@esoc.esa.de (Niall O Broin - Gray Wizard)

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