Greetings experts!
I have a Decstation 3000/900 which we now run with the console attached to
the 'first' serial port (the printer-port). This all works pretty well,
but I have a small problem. I can't boot it if the keyboard is not
attached. It will go through the self-tests and tell me that the keyboard
was not attached, and therefore it doesn't want to boot.
I found a pretty old mail (-94) from this list in which Tom Blinn referred
to the System Programmers Reference manual where you will see that you can
direct the console to the serial port by saying 'set console 2'. This I
have done, and that made it possible to do HALT-mode work over the serial
line, but the '900 still doesn't feel that it can boot without having a
keyboard attached.
Is this simply a no-go, or is there a recipe somewhere? This, I must
admit, is not a big problem. I can just plug the keyboard in and let it
lay there on top of the '900, but I have this nagging feeling that this
should be doable.
Thanks for your time.
//Per
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Received on Tue Nov 24 1998 - 21:41:05 NZDT