I think it hangs because it's trying to write to the console and can't. So, you
need to make some tweaks to stop it trying to write to the console. I recently
had to do much the same thing on a really old SparcServer 1000 and this worked
for me.
You want to make changes to the /etc/inittab and /etc/syslog.conf files so make
copies of the current versions first. Then, edit syslog.conf and comment out
any lines that refer to /dev/console e.g.:
# *.err;kern.notice;auth.notice /dev/console
Next open inittab and edit this line
co:234:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` console login: " -T sun
-d /dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat
replace the '234' with a '1' like this:
co:1:respawn:/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -h -p "`uname -n` console login: " -T sun
-d /dev/console -l console -m ldterm,ttcompat
And that should be about it. When you reboot it should no longer try to
communicate with the console. If you want the changes to take effect without
rebooting just do a 'kill -HUP' on the init and syslogd processes.
Best of luck,
Derek Torrance
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