[Gllug] openboot on a sparc via minicom

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Fri Nov 26 00:11:00 UTC 2004


My sparc 20 saga continues...

After a lot of woe (NEVER buying from ebuyer again) and eventually shelling 
out £25 for a null modem cable and gender changer on TCR, I have a booting 
box and a terminal running.

I can get into SunOS5 and see the hardware ID of the NIC (which appears 
unconfigured and pretty much unidentified - eg ifconfig gives me nothing and 
I can see no obvious device file)

To be able to get anywhere I think I need to access the openboot - can I do 
this over a terminal? If so, how?

Thanks

Adrian
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