> > Hmm. I have have mine running headless without a loopback connector...
> > I have to leave the mouse and keyboard plugged in but I don't have 
> > anything hooked up to the display port...
> 
> Maybe I'm remembering wrong.   We always used the loopback connectors
> at DEC, so I never figured out whether it could be done without them.
> Actually, it may just be that if you can put a head on it and set the
> console variable to point at the serial console, then you're fine as
> long as NVRAM is good, and as long as you don't reset the console
> variable...   If you want to have the boot prom figure out what
> console to use, then you have to use the loopback connector.
> 

That sounds right.. The NVRAM in mine sometimes forgets everything (it's
getting old...).  I then have to put on my Stevie Wonder shades and type
blindly on the keyboard "enable tty(3)" and "setenv console 8" ;-)

Dean.