Summary: Sun keyboard question

My question:
Good Morning,
Just a question by a user. I'm sure someone here has an answer as I can
always find good admins reading requests.
When a Sun machine has it's keyboard removed while on, it goes to the
stop A prompt. How do you stop this from occuring, ie. the system will
keep running after removing the keyboard?
Conversely when you start a Sun machine without keyboard  or monitor
plugged in, how do you get it to display on a monitor later? I could not
get it to come up, and it did not respond to keyboard input.

Thanks in advance ..

ANSWER :
Thanks to Eric Seale, Rich Teer, David Foster, and Angelo Bonfiete..
Concession was " kdb -a disable" for the keyboard. But that the system 
will not boot up without a keyboard. Here is a more cincise answer from 
John Malick:

The first part of your question depends on which Solaris you're running. 
All the latest releases, you would need to disable the "KEYBOARD ABORT" 
setting in the /etc/default/kbd file. Ususally it is commented out and 
you would need it to look like the following:

KEYBOARD_ABORT=disable

Or you can create a different break signal that would not be the same as 
when keyboard is removed.

For the second part of your question I don't believe you can do this. 
When the system is powered it looks for a keyboard. If it does not find 
one it assumes the console is now ttya. Simply plugging a keyboard in 
later does not switch console back to the graphics card. What you could 
do is unplug the monitor but always leave a keyboard plugged in. That 
way you can remove and re-attach the monitor at any time.
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