[XCSSA] Sparc serial help needed

[tweeks]

I thought that Sparc/Solaris automagically redirected console to the tty
if a Sun KB was not found hooked up.

Tweeks

firestorm_v1 wrote:
> 
> I need help trying to get a Sparc LX unit to run a serial terminal off of
> what I believe to be /dev/ttyS0 however I am not really familiar with
> how sparc architecture is laid out.
> 
> I want all text that would normally go to the monitor to go out to the
> serial port. I have done this a few times on x86 machines using "console"
> paramterers in the lilo.conf file, as well as the agetty/mgetty program
> to allow serial console based logins however the silo boot loader doesn;t
> seem to run with the same commands. and I am unable to find agetty for
> the Sparc architecture. Mgetty for the sparc doesn't appear to want to open
> the serial port.
> 
> Please give me any information on this as I am at a loss on how to proceed.
> thanks in advance
> 
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