On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Manuel Bouyer wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:57:35AM -0500, Jon Lindgren wrote:
> > A quick poll: does anyone out there have an SS2 which will boot to the
> > serial console without kernel modifications?  I't seems that
> > port-sparc/7409 is PROM version dependant... so if anyone has a PROM
> > version that works, could you please shout out?  I'd like to throw it
> > towards the FAQ for future reference.
> 
> I have one. Is there a way to get the prom version without rebooting the
> machine ?
> I just left input/output to keyboard/screen and removed the keyboard.

Unfortunately, I'm not sure.  And now I'm at work so I can't even research
it.  I don't remember getting anything helpful from eeprom or its
relatives :-(

-Jon Lindgren
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