Hello Frederik, > > > > Wel okl, I am not a Sun expert but on hppa box, it's enough to unplug > > mouse/kbd to force the pdc (the pc-bios equivalent) to switch it's > > console to the serial port 1. Is it the same for a sunblade or do I > > have to change something in the openboot config? > > Not sure about a sunblade, but I think the general advice would be: > > # Enable serial console via port A or B > ok setenv input-device tty[a|b] > ok setenv output-device tty[a|b] > ok reset > # Power off and unplug monitor and keyboard. > > # Enable screen/keyboard > ok setenv input-device keyboard > ok setenv output-device screen > ok reset > # Power off and plug in monitor and keyboard. > > # RS232 settings: 9600 bps, 8N1 (8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit), no > > flow control. > Thanks a lot for advise.
That said it works also fine if jut unplug kbd ;) The most difficult was first to find the serial cable and second to find that hyperterminal have to be setup without flow control. (thanks) And the bad is that I couldn't reproduce the pb when I use the serial port as console? Here is what I grab: Initializing Memory... ok boot cdrom Boot device: /[EMAIL PROTECTED],0/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/[EMAIL PROTECTED],0:f File and args: SILO Version 1.4.6 \ Welcome to Debian GNU/Linux sarge! This is a Debian installation CDROM, built on 20040713. Keep it once you have installed your system, as you can boot from it to repair the system on your hard disk if that ever becomes necessary. WARNING: You should completely back up all of your hard disks before proceeding. The installation procedure can completely and irreversibly erase them! If you haven't made backups yet, remove the rescue CD from the drive and press L1-A to get back to the OpenBoot prompt. Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by applicable law. [ ENTER - Boot install ] [ Type "rescue" - Boot into rescue mode ] boot: Allocated 8 Megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel |/-\[...]|/Loaded kernel version 2.4.26 Loading initial ramdisk (1858437 bytes at 0x7800000 phys, 0x40C00000 virt)... -\|/[...]-\|/ Remapping the kernel... done. Booting Linux... PROMLIB: Sun IEEE Boot Prom 4.0.45 2001/02/08 14:33 Linux version 2.4.26-sparc64 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.3 (Debian 20040321)) #1 Fri Jun 18 02:04:50 PDT 2004 ARCH: SUN4U Ethernet address: 00:03:ba:10:e5:74 On node 0 totalpages: 15502 zone(0): 16270 pages. zone(1): 0 pages. zone(2): 0 pages. Found CPU 0 (node=f006dbd4,mid=0) Found 1 CPU prom device tree node(s). Kernel command line: root=/dev/rd/0 cdrom devfs=mount rw ramdisk_size=8192 rootfstype=ext2 Calibrating delay loop... 1002.70 BogoMIPS Memory: 122440k available (2592k kernel code, 608k data, 184k init) [fffff80000000000,0000000007f1c000] Dentry cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 5, 262144 bytes) Inode cache hash table entries: 8192 (order: 4, 131072 bytes) Mount cache hash table entries: 512 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Buffer cache hash table entries: 1024 (order: 0, 8192 bytes) Page-cache hash table entries: 16384 (order: 4, 131072 bytes) POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX PCI: Probing for controllers. PCI: Found SABRE, main regs at 000001fe00000000, wsync at 000001fe00001c20 SABRE: Shared PCI config space at 000001fe01000000 SABRE: DVMA at c0000000 [20000000] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ 8] map[0] to INO[23] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[06] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[1c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ c] map[0] to INO[24] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[ d] map[0] to INO[0c] PCI-IRQ: Routing bus[ 0] slot[13] map[0] to INO[0f] PCI0(PBMA): Bus running at 33MHz isa0: [dma -> (floppy) (parallel)] [power] [serial] [serial] ebus0: [flashprom] [eeprom] [idprom] PCIO serial driver version 1.54 su(serial) at 0x1fe020003f8 (tty 0 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A su(serial) at 0x1fe020002e8 (tty 1 irq 12,7eb) is a 16550A Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.4 Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039 Initializing RT netlink socket Starting kswapd VFS: Disk quotas vdquot_6.5.1 Journalled Block Device driver loaded devfs: v1.12c (20020818) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) devfs: boot_options: 0x1 pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured rtc_init: no PC rtc found RAMDISK driver initialized: 16 RAM disks of 8192K size 1024 blocksize loop: loaded (max 8 devices) sungem.c:v0.97 3/20/02 David S. Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eth%d: MII PHY ID: 437420 Enable Semiconductor eth0: Sun GEM (PCI) 10/100/1000BaseT Ethernet 00:03:ba:10:e5:74 Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 7.00beta4-2.4 ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx ALI15X3: IDE controller at PCI slot 00:0d.0 ALI15X3: chipset revision 195 ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 4,7cc ide0: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a20-0x1fe02000a27, BIOS settings: hda:pio, hdb:pio ide1: BM-DMA at 0x1fe02000a28-0x1fe02000a2f, BIOS settings: hdc:pio, hdd:pio hda: ST320011A, ATA DISK drive hdb: PIONEER 16X DVD-ROM 1.21, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive ide: Assuming 33MHz system bus speed for PIO modes; override with idebus=xx hdc: ST320011A, ATA DISK drive ide0 at 0x1fe02000a00-0x1fe02000a07,0x1fe02000a1a on irq 4,7cc ide1 at 0x1fe02000a10-0x1fe02000a17,0x1fe02000a0a on irq 4,7cc hda: attached ide-disk driver. hda: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(66) hdc: attached ide-disk driver. hdc: 39102336 sectors (20020 MB) w/2048KiB Cache, CHS=38792/16/63, UDMA(66) hdb: attached ide-cdrom driver. hdb: ATAPI 40X DVD-ROM drive, 256kB Cache, UDMA(66) Uniform CD-ROM driver Revision: 3.12 Partition check: /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0: p1 p2 p3 p7 p8 /dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0: p3 SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00 kmod: failed to exec /sbin/modprobe -s -k scsi_hostadapter, errno = 2 usb.c: registered new driver usbdevfs usb.c: registered new driver hub host/usb-uhci.c: $Revision: 1.275 $ time 02:06:04 Jun 18 2004 host/usb-uhci.c: High bandwidth mode enabled host/usb-uhci.c: v1.275:USB Universal Host Controller Interface driver host/usb-ohci.c: USB OHCI at membase 0x1ff02000000, IRQ 9,7e4 host/usb-ohci.c: usb-00:0c.3, PCI device 108e:1103 usb.c: new USB bus registered, assigned bus number 1 hub.c: USB hub found hub.c: 4 ports detected usb.c: registered new driver usbmouse usbmouse.c: v1.6:USB HID Boot Protocol mouse driver usb.c: registered new driver usbkbd usbkbd.c: :USB HID Boot Protocol keyboard driver mice: PS/2 mouse device common for all mice Initializing Cryptographic API NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0 IP: routing cache hash table of 1024 buckets, 8Kbytes TCP: Hash tables configured (established 16384 bind 16384) NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0/SMP for Linux NET4.0. RAMDISK: Compressed image found at block 0 <====[*] Freeing initrd memory: 1814k freed VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Mounted devfs on /dev VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem). Trying to move old root to /initrd ... okay Mounted devfs on /dev Setting up filesUnimplemented SPARC system call 188 ystem, please waUnimplemented SPARC system call 188 it ... Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Unimplemented SPARC system call 188 Starting system log daemon: syslogd, klogd. insmod: usb-ohci.o: no module by that name found modprobe: failed to load module usb-ohci insmod: usbkbd.o: no module by that name found modprobe: failed to load module usbkbd insmod: keybdev.o: no module by that name found modprobe: failed to load module keybdev insmod: usbserial.o: no module by that name found modprobe: failed to load module usbserial OTC when I go back to gfx console (the linux penguin appears well in the uper left screen corner :-) ) all seems the same excepted that at <====[*] it failled like you mentioned in your bug report: [...] RAMDISK: Couldn't find valid RAM disk image starting at 0. Freeing initrd memory: 1820k freed Kernel panic: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on 00:00 Press L1-A to return to the boot prom umm did we used the same ramdisk in the two case? May be also interesting to know that it's the builtin gfx (no additional gfx card?) Thanks again for your attention, Joel --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tiscali ADSL LIGHT, 19,95 EUR/mois pendant 6 mois, c'est le moment de faire le pas! http://reg.tiscali.be/default.asp?lg=fr