Unofficial Sun Blade 100 FAQ : Sun Blade 100 hardware questions : OpenBoot 4.x on the Sun Blade 100 : How do I set the screen resolution in Open Boot Prom?
****** Warning ************************** Read the WHOLE text through before doing anything. Always Power OFF all equipment before (dis)connecting any signal cables. Read the WHOLE text through before doing anything. ************* END Warning ************** If you have an Older or unusual VGA monitor It migth be nessesary to change the default resolution/scanrate that the SUNBlade100 uses in Prom mode and in single user/command line window mode. Before you can attach your old Monitor you will probably have to borrow a fairly new standard monitor that supports 1152x900x76 which is what the SUN 17″ monitor uses for default resolution. Attach the “Standard” monitor to the SB100 and do the following procedures: ( Another way to do it is ofcourse to attach a NULL-MODEM cable between a PC COM1 port and the Serial 1 port on the SUNblade an remove the Sunblades keyboard which will make the SUNBLADE use the Serial 1 port as its Console. Then set up a Hyperterminal/VT220 emulator session to the
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