syslogd, CONSOLE and hastart

[kasthuri jegatheesan]

Hi

System: ER 420 - headless system. Solaris 5.7 VCS 1.1.1

I see the following message in my dmesg:
" syslogd: /dev/sysmsg: I/O error"

There is another problem that could be associated with this. Veritas
"hastart" does not start both the 'had' and 'hashadow' unless and
untill a laptop is hooked on to the server. if we do a 'truss hastart
-fore' it starts well.
This implies to me that there is some prob with /dev/console.
truss -p had_pid also indicates the same

i think that the above syslogd message also indicates something with
CONSOLE.

does anyone have any insights on this issue? Any suggestion is
appreciated.

Thanks & Regards
Kasthuri.J

[Greg Andrews]

1. Log into the 420R as root.

2. Answer the question "Which port do you connect the laptop to, A or B?"

3. Type one of these commands, depending on the answer to Step 2:

Port A: eeprom ttya-ignore-cd=true

Port B: eeprom ttyb-ignore-cd=true

4. Shut down the 420R cleanly and reboot.

Now Solaris will be able to boot even when nothing is connected
to the console serial port.

-Greg
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