[sclug] Sun SPARC help

[Alex Butcher]

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Neil Owens wrote:

> I have no way of knowing what it's doing - there's no output on 'A'.
> Sending a Break ( either by 'STOP A' on a Sun keyboard or by sending a Break
> from TeraTerm) has no effect.  I don't get as far as the OBP. I can't see or
> find a 'reset CMOS' jumper anywhere.  even if the NVRAM battery is dead it
> should still get me a OBP prompt......

Hmmm... are you sure about that last bit?

It's been a while since I've seen a SPARC with a dead NVRAM battery but my
dodgy DRAM is telling me that it just hangs, and you don't get to do
anything.

Is it worth trying to swap the NVRAM with the one from the working machine
to be sure?

> - I think it's FUBAR -
> Neil

HTH,
Alex.

>
> Anyone want to make me an
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Butcher" <lug at assursys.co.uk>
> To: "Neil Owens" <neil_o at ntlworld.com>
> Cc: <sclug at sclug.org.uk>
> Sent: Saturday, November 20, 2004 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [sclug] Sun SPARC help
>
>
>> On Sat, 20 Nov 2004, Neil Owens wrote:
>>
>>> I've inherited 2 old SPARC IPX boxes, one of which runs (Debian) just
> dandy.
>>>
>>> The other won't 'boot' through the serial port.  It makes all of the
>>> start-up noises like the working one does, but I don't get any output
> from
>>> the serial port.
>>
>> IIRC, the serial console equivalent of stop-A is ESC-A, so try typing
> things
>> like:
>>
>>   CTRL+] a
>>   CTRL+Break a
>>   CTRL+[ a
>>   ESC a
>>   CTRL+Esc a
>>
>> I assume you've set the console to 9600 8,n,1.
>>
>>> I plugged in a keyboard but 'STOP-A' doesn't do anything. It's not worth
>>> me spending X20+ on a video adaptor, so
>>>
>>> Can anyone lend me a Sun video to 15 pin VGA adaptor so I can see if
> it's
>>> booting through Video only
>>
>> www.13w3.com have them for 19GBP, if you get no offers.
>>
>>> Neil
>>
>> HTH,
>> Alex.
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