RE: Killed my SPARC5?
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I think that it's more likely a hardware problem. You should be getting at
least some PROM messages through the console no matter what. I would
re-check/seat everything internal.
- -Matt
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From: Kristofer Bergstrom [mailto:kristofer.bergstrom@stanfordalumni.org]
Sent: Monday, November 18, 2002 7:37 AM
To: debian-sparc@lists.debian.org
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
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