[SUMMARY] SunBlade 100 won't boot w/o keyboard

From: <adyas_at_twowaytv.co.uk>
Date: Mon Mar 24 2003 - 13:04:26 EST
Hi,

As usual as soon as I post I find the answer.

I needed to change ttya-ignore-cd to 'true' at the OBP.  This configures 
the OS to ignore carrier detect on TTYA.  I'm not sure why this would 
stop the OS from booting though?

Thanks,

Alex..

adyas@twowaytv.co.uk wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Our Sun Blade 100 will not boot without the keyboard plugged in.
> 
> With a terminal connected to the serial port, and no keyboard plugged 
> in, booting with -a -v gets as far as :
> 
> ......
> root filesystem type [ufs]:<RETURN>
> Enter physical name of root device
> [/pci@1f,0/ide@d/disk@0,0:a]:<RETURN>
> -
> 
> Then nothing.  Sending a break gets me an OK prompt, but typing 'go' has 
> no further effect.
> 
> Booting with a keyboard / monitor is fine.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Alex

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-= alex dyas - broadcast support engineer - twowaytv - uk =-
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