RE: Killed my SPARC5?
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: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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