From: Gary Lopez (gary@catapult.com)
Date: Wed Sep 08 2004 - 15:40:12 EDT
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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