Summary2: No serial console connected - boots up but stays in ok prompt ?

Hello,

My problem was solved by including the line:

set abort_enable=true

in /etc/system

and setting

KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable

in /etc/default/kbd

Thank you again to all who helped.

--
Lyndon Tiu

On Tuesday 08 October 2002 22:23, Shirley Palma wrote:
> it may not be set to auto-boot. at the ok? prompt type "printenv". you'll
> see an entry that says auto-boot?  and two columns following that show you
> the 'default' and the actual setting, may look something like this:
>
> auto-boot? 	false		true
>
> to change the value of "auto-boot" you have to do this at ok? prompt:
>
> ok? setenv auto-boot?=true
>
> or some combo...i forget if you need a space btwn the equals sign and
> true, or if you can leave out the "=" altogether...just try a few times
> and when you get "auto-boot?=true" as the output after you hit "enter",
> you're set. to double check and make sure the setting's in there, just do
> printenv and look to see what the value for auto-boot is set to.
>
> i think that's all you really need here. good luck; i hope it's as
> simple as setting that environmental variable.
>
> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Lyndon Tiu wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I know that if you power off the terminal connected to a SUN, the SUN
> > drops to the ok prompt.
> >
> > I also know that if you connect a SUN to a terminal, boot it, then
> > disconnect the terminal, the SUN drops to the ok prompt.
> >
> > What I am puzzled about is that if I start without any terminal connected
> > to the SUN, power it up, it boots into the ok prompt only and won't go
> > further.
> >
> > What am I missing here?
> >
> > The system is an old IPX running sendmail on Solaris 2.6. It's my
> > office's SMTP server. It's old but does the job very well and I'd hate to
> > lose it.
> >
> > Thank you for any tips.
> >
> > --
> > Lyndon Tiu
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