RE: E450 - hangs when booting without keyboard and monitor

From: Torrance, Derek (Derek.Torrance_at_gha.org.uk)
Date: 09/02/04

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    I think it hangs because it's trying to write to the console and can't. So, you need to make some tweaks to stop it trying to write to the console. I recently had to do much the same thing on a really old SparcServer 1000 and this worked for me.
    You want to make changes to the /etc/inittab and /etc/syslog.conf files so make copies of the current versions first. Then, edit syslog.conf and comment out any lines that refer to /dev/console e.g.:

    # *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice /dev/console

    Next open inittab and edit this line

    co:234:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` console login: " -T sun -d /dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat

    replace the '234' with a '1' like this:

    co:1:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` console login: " -T sun -d /dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat

    And that should be about it. When you reboot it should no longer try to communicate with the console. If you want the changes to take effect without rebooting just do a 'kill -HUP' on the init and syslogd processes.

    Best of luck,
    Derek Torrance

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