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-> I attempted to get a Sun IPX to start up without a monitor or keyboard.
-> I had an emulated dumb terminal on the a port.
-> I could watch the boot process from the dumb terminal but it would invarible
-> stop booting after the memory check and the kernel was found.
-> I messed with the eeprom's input, output and compatible-monitor variables
-> to no avail.
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-I'm not 100% sure, but I =believe= the IPX =requires= a keyboard.
-You can do without a monitor. In fact, we have yanked monitors
-out and in and out of running machines with no problems.
I have an IPX running (and booting Sun OS 4.1.3) with no keyboard.
Just a dumb terminal on ttya.
I have no special tricks or words of wisdom to offer. I hooked up the
terminal and disconnected the keyboard and monitor about a year ago
and it just works.
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