headless booting
gargle...@my-deja.com
i just got an indy which i want to run headless. there is advice on
how to run headless, but all of it says i need to plug a monitor in
first. i would do that, but space is at a premium here in japan, and
the lcd display i do have (an eizo l350) doesn't seem to want to play
ball with the indy's video signal. i suppose i could lug the indy to
a monitor that will cooperate, but barring that, does anyone have any
ideas on how to get this thing going?
thanks in advance,
g.m.
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Brent Casavant
On 16 Jan 2001 gargle...@my-deja.com wrote:
>
> i just got an indy which i want to run headless. there is advice on
> how to run headless, but all of it says i need to plug a monitor in
> first. i would do that, but space is at a premium here in japan, and
> the lcd display i do have (an eizo l350) doesn't seem to want to play
> ball with the indy's video signal. i suppose i could lug the indy to
> a monitor that will cooperate, but barring that, does anyone have any
> ideas on how to get this thing going?
Sure.
Connect some sort of terminal equipment to the Indy's serial port. During
boot hit the Escape key, and you will be dropped into the 5-option menu.
From there you can choose option 5 to get the PROM monitor.
At the PROM monitor prompt, make sure to set the console to the serial
line with the command:
setenv console d
This will cause the console to appear on the serial port by default
from that point forward (even across power-downs). If you ever wish to
switch back to the graphics console you can "setenv console g" instead.
From this point the system will basically behave exactly as if you were
sitting at the console on the graphics display. There really should be
no discernable difference (apart from not having graphics of course ;).
If you can currently boot to IRIX, you can achieve the console switch
by using:
# nvram console d
Hope that helps,
Brent Casavant
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Scott Henry
B> [posted and replied]
B> On 16 Jan 2001 gargle...@my-deja.com wrote:
>>
>> i just got an indy which i want to run headless. there is advice on
>> how to run headless, but all of it says i need to plug a monitor in
>> first. i would do that, but space is at a premium here in japan, and
>> the lcd display i do have (an eizo l350) doesn't seem to want to play
>> ball with the indy's video signal. i suppose i could lug the indy to
>> a monitor that will cooperate, but barring that, does anyone have any
>> ideas on how to get this thing going?
B> Sure.
B> Connect some sort of terminal equipment to the Indy's serial port. During
B> boot hit the Escape key, and you will be dropped into the 5-option menu.
B> From there you can choose option 5 to get the PROM monitor.
Important: Make sure that you have no keyboard or mouse plugged in!
The PROM by default (it can be overridden) assumes that without a
keyboard that you want to use the serial port as console.
B> At the PROM monitor prompt, make sure to set the console to the serial
B> line with the command:
B> setenv console d
B> This will cause the console to appear on the serial port by default
B> from that point forward (even across power-downs). If you ever wish to
B> switch back to the graphics console you can "setenv console g" instead.
B> From this point the system will basically behave exactly as if you were
B> sitting at the console on the graphics display. There really should be
B> no discernable difference (apart from not having graphics of course ;).
B> If you can currently boot to IRIX, you can achieve the console switch
B> by using:
B> # nvram console d
B> Hope that helps,
B> Brent Casavant
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B> Silicon Graphics, Inc.
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Strafe
4D/25 this way. Use the Indigo2 to pull windows over to it from the two
headless machines. Works great. I use an old 386 laptop and a simple
terminal program to connect to the two headless machines when I'm
installing the OS (cause I did something stupid, do this a lot, it's
fun).
-joe-
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Norm Dresner
or monitor or mouse is
"Set nogfxkbd to 1 in the PROM command monitor (look up the FAQ if
you can't guess the syntax using "help" in tha command monitor ;) )."
This has worked on both an Indy and an older Indigo. But the procedure for
setting the PROM environment variable is the same as below. And no, I don't
really know what the differences are, I simply use the first reasonable
answer to the same question.
Norman Dresner
Fellow Systems Engineer & SGI Laboratory Administrator
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gargle...@my-deja.com
hey, thanks everybody, worked like a charm.
by the way, nvram says dbaud is 9600 -- can i get any higher than
that? i'm a little a nervous about changing that value and screwing
things up so i can't get into irix. of course, i can use ethernet
once the thing is going, so it's not crucial.
thanks again.
g.m.
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