From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jul 4 10:33:33 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8ADEF37B51D for ; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 10:33:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 2ee4e7c625482f2f2a1950a80f6c8d58) with ESMTP id <20000704173309.ERDO26299.relay02@chello.nl>; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:33:09 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id TAA00878; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:33:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 19:33:26 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Bill Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Headless Alpha?? Message-ID: <20000704193326.A243@freebie.wbnet> Reply-To: wilko@FreeBSD.ORG References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i In-Reply-To: ; from bwoods2@uswest.net on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:09:01AM -0700 X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 01:09:01AM -0700, Bill 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? If it does not find a keyboard it assumes a serial console. There is also a SRM variable 'console' or similar that you can set (>>> SHOW CONSOLE) -- Wilko Bulte http://www.freebsd.org "Do, or do not. There is no try" wilko@freebsd.org http://www.nlfug.nl Yoda - The Empire Strikes Back To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message