Re: Killed my SPARC5?

[Donald Knecht <donk@hastys.net>]

Matthew Twomey wrote:

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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?
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>  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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this may or may not be related..........but ever since i installed a new 
boot prom on my
ss20, if i manually turn the power off to the box then re-apply power it 
sits there for
about five minutes with just the power supply fan and the hard drive fan 
running, the power LED is on..........then the monitor, (GDM17E10) will 
switch on and the OPB screen will come up, another weird thing about 
this prom is setenv seems to not work, it will not remember my settings, 
if i change boot-device to disk it still comes up trying net as 
default....is this a bad prom or is the nvram going?  what is the 
program kris speaks of that lets you change prom settings from linux?

tia,
don