I have a question. have you checked the keyboard connection? Make sure the keyboard cable is plugged in at both at the box and at the keyboard. If a Sparc system can't find the keyboard,it will log all input, and out put to the first serial port. When a hardware problem dose exist the system loges the message to the serial port. If all else fails connect a terminal to the serial port to and see what happens. Lee
>> - -----Original Message----- >> From: Kristofer Bergstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:37 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Killed my SPARC5? >> >> >> 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 >> >> >> _________________________________________________________ ___________ >> >> >> - -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: 6.5.8ckt http://www.ipgpp.com/ >> >> iQA/AwUBPdjyEFjHwVzo2xUHEQIWzgCfb/TVgGJtaFYTIFKBKyW+RO2AFfs AnjM0 >> 04JKwOZiA2DJdtmLufvIFdhe >> =5eEG >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >>
