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press Stop+N when/while you power up the machine |
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and see what happens (you may also try stop+D) |
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The reason your sparc takes so long to boot is probably because the |
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default behavior is to do a complete POST (power-on-self-test) when |
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powered on. you should get yourself a handbook on "open boot". |
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cheers |
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Norman |
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Norman Warthmann |
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http://www.smartgradstudent.de |
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On Jun 10, 2006, at 17:44 PM, krutny wrote: |
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> Hi everyone, |
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> 2 days ago I've plugged in keyboard to my sparc and nothing |
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> happens. So |
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> I've restarted him and hi welcomed me error message like: |
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> "Keyboard not present. |
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> Using ttya for input and output." |
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> I've checked if keyboard is correctly connected but with no result. |
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> So I've started working on connecting with my sparc using ttya. I've |
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> connected him with my laptop. Downloaded minicom. Setup com device, |
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> bps, |
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> parity bits everything according to |
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> www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml. After turning on minicom I |
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> can see that his online so it's good I think. But nothing happens. (I |
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> have to admit that's my first time using serial console so I can do |
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> something wrong). I've found |
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> http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Solaris/ |
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> SOLARIS_UsingSerialConsoles.shtml |
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> page and according to this I've setup "Init string" to "~^M~". |
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> Author of |
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> this page wrote that after saving this and restarting minicom user |
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> should get login prompt but nothing like that happens. |
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> Additional problem is that my gentoo on this sparc isn't starting. |
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> After |
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> hot shutdown (by turning off power supply) sometimes SILO wasn't |
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> starting properly... it was somethin like S....(wait) L....... (longer |
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> wait) .. Normally I've get SILO in 0.5 second. I've this problem |
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> several |
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> times ago but booting with live-cd ang fsck on harddisk was |
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> helpful. Now |
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> I now (because I've checked logs on this disk in another machine) that |
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> gentoo isn't starting... |
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> Any help will be appreciated, |
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> Greetings, |
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> krutny |
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