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On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:50:08 +0100
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Alex Buell <alex.buell@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
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> Hi, |
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> Seeing the recent activity on this mailing list, I thought I'd ask. |
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> I've got an Ultra Enterprise 2 w/ 2GB of RAM and a pair of 300MHz |
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> blackbird processors. |
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> Sadly, I've just tried to boot the thing up tonight and found it's not |
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> working. What I can see is the light on the CDROM comes on and flash |
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> a few times, then the display changes to black - that means there is |
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> a signal there but there's nothing there to see, even after a few |
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> minutes. This box has both a TurboGX and a Creator3D cards in it, both |
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> show the same result. |
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> Any ideas on how I can get it up and running? It did work before I |
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> moved house a few months ago. |
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What kind of keyboard? If it's a sparc keyboard you should see the
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keyboard lights flash through a sequence during the power up cycle ---
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this is Power On Self Test (POST) cycle. Screen will be clear during
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this.
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What does it sound like when you power it up? Since it is hitting the
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CD, it must be probing something. What happens if you type in 'boot'
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after a while, even if you can't see anything?
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After that, it's hard to guess. If it goes through all of that, it
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sees the keyboard. There are some silly things to check for: like,
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did you somehow turn the brightness and contrast all the way down on
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the monitor? Is everything the system still seated well (you've been
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moving it around) --- with a U2 that's easy to check. Or you might
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need to replace the boot chip (it has a battery with it, and the
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batteries will run down after a few years...)
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I'm fumbling here. With luck, someone will pick this up and have
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better ideas, or you can ask for ideas on the freenode #gentoo-sparc IRC
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channel.
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> Thanks for any ideas.. |
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> Alex |
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> http://www.munted.org.uk |
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> Fearsome grindings. |
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> gentoo-sparc@g.o mailing list |
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Sorry not to be of more help,
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Regards,
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- --
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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@g.o>
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Developer, Gentoo Linux (Sparc, Devrel)
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