Hello all. I was given two SPARCstation 5's last year that I'm trying to install Linux on. Thanks to everyone's help, I was able to set up the first one with relatively few problems. Attempting to apply what I had learned, I dove into the second box on my own and may have managed to kill it. Ug. Here's the situation: When I flip the switch of my SPARC 5, it beeps, the fan spins, I think there's even a little hard-disk activity, but no front LED and no display output. The power's on but nothing happens... basically a black box. This happened at the very end of the install process. I had Debian (stable) installed and almost ready to go. I was attempting to make the machine boot from hard-disk, a problem I had faced with the Debian install on the other machine. I changed my silo.conf and then used the function to update the ROM (Ug, I can't remember the name of it. It lets you set the SPARC setenv variables from within Linux.) I set the following things from the Linux command line: setenv boot-device disk setenv auto-boot? true setenv diag-switch? false When I attempted a re-boot, I got the current black box problem. (In case it's of worth, the boot floppy is still in the drive.) So it seems I've killed my boot ROM? Can this be fixed? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance.
Kris ____________________________________________________________________
