Re: Killed my SPARC5?
Most likely the contents of the nvram got mangled, but to be on
the safe side, start with checking that your keyboard is plugged
in correctly. (That the leds light and so on). If it isn't,
sun's per default switch to using ttya (or ttyS0 in linuxspeak)
for input/output, and shuts down the display hardware.
Provided the keyboard works, try pressing Stop-N (That is, the
stop key and the N key simultaneusly). It should reset it to
default values. There is a nvram faq at
http://www.squirrel.com/sun-nvram-hostid.faq.html which might be
of help if it still doesn't work...
Kristofer Bergstrom <kristofer.bergstrom@stanfordalumni.org> writes:
> 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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