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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 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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> |
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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, 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/SOLARIS_UsingSerialConsoles.shtml |
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> page and according to this I've setup "Init string" to "~^M~". 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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> |
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> Additional problem is that my gentoo on this sparc isn't starting. 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 several |
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> times ago but booting with live-cd ang fsck on harddisk was 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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> |
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> Any help will be appreciated, |
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> Greetings, |
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> krutny |
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I haven't read through the links you've posted, but I've had to work |
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with SPARC boxes in the past via serial console (using Solaris, not |
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gentoo, but the principles should still apply - maybe not). To say |
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the lest, it's a tedious process. First of all, do you have another |
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keyboard you can try? It might be something wrong with the keyboard |
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that it's not being read as present on boot. Also, make sure that the |
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eeprom configuration is correct (I'd have to check to be sure - it's |
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been a while - but I think there is a keyboard setting in the eeprom. |
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Getting to the eeprom can be tough through serial though. IIRC, it's |
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some funky key combination like CTRL+BRK+A or just CTRL+BRK while |
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you're getting the "Initializing memory ... " prompt. |
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The SILO problems you mentioned are usually issues with the disk, |
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especially the boot sector. You might have to reinstall SILO, or |
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gentoo altogether. |
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I know this isn't the complete answer, but it might get you started. |
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HTH |
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gentux |
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echo "hfouvyyAhnbjm/dpn" | perl -pe 's/(.)/chr(ord($1)-1)/ge' |
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gentux's gpg fingerprint ==> 5495 0388 67FF 0B89 1239 D840 4CF0 39E2 |
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