Subject: Re: 5000/200 onboard ethernet fails selfcheck
To: None <apriebe@aip.de>
From: Aaron J. Grier <agrier@poofy.goof.com>
List: port-pmax
Date: 08/14/1999 15:19:11
On Fri, Aug 13, 1999 at 09:20:35PM +0200, apr@spade.apc.aip.de wrote:

> Are there any settings on the PROM  or other things I could use to
> make this machine boot automatically after poweron?

How about terminating the onboard ethernet with a T and two terminators,
and ripping out the framebuffer entirely?  Then it should be happy.

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  Aaron J. Grier  | "Not your ordinary poofy goof." | agrier@poofy.goof.com
    "[...] of all the port lists to grumble to about slow CPU speeds and
     other resource limitations, I'd imagine that port-vax is not a very
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