From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 4 6:29:36 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from marble.fbcc.com (ns2.fbcc.com [216.54.252.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9E7A37B747 for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 06:29:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Received: (qmail 26372 invoked from network); 4 Jul 2000 13:31:56 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO bluto.jimking.net) (216.54.255.8) by ns2.fbcc.com with SMTP; 4 Jul 2000 13:31:56 -0000 Received: from marble (marble.lgc.com [134.132.228.8]) by bluto.jimking.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id IAA05053; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 08:29:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from king@sstar.com) Message-ID: <047301bfe5bb$e1c78e60$08e48486@marble> From: "Jim King" To: "Bill" , References: Subject: Re: Headless Alpha?? Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 08:29:25 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org bwoods2@uswest.net wrote: > I have a DEC Alpha 200 4/233 that I would like to run headless. In the > situation that I need to reboot (Make world, kerne;l complile) how can I > tell this thing its OK to boot up without keyboard and monitor? When the Alpha firmware sees that there's no keyboard plugged in it automatically switches the console to the first serial port. You don't have to adjust any settings for this to happen. Jim To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message