Re: How can i boot *anything* on Sun Blade 100?

With IDE/ATA, it is vital that:

- You use the correct cable, 40 or 80 pins

- You place the devices in the right order on the cable. 80 pin cables will usually have color coding. Usually blue goes on the motherboard.

- Jumper the options correctly on the devices. Master/slave on 40 pin cables, cable select preferred on 80 pin cables.

For the console ...

You will need to set your output-device and input-device via setenv to switch the console to serial.

On Mon, Apr 10, 2017 at 5:45 PM, transmail <transmail@freemail.hu> wrote:

Ok, i'll get a serial cable then. But now, the booting up works, it's now the OS-es what do not want to work. I'll get a DVD-R for Solaris and i'll wait for the next Debian image. Maybe this'll solve. As for FreeBSD i have no idea why it does freeze. Does the Blade still sends messages via serial cable after "boot cdrom" ?

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de> írta:

>On 04/10/2017 03:40 PM, transmail wrote:
>> I think, it was the SSD which confused the system. Now as SSD is alone on the secondary
>> channel and on the primary, the HDD is the master and the DVD is the slave, everything
>> is visible in "probe-ide" and "boot cdrom" works. But boot FreeBSD and Debian 9 dies under
>> the boot procedure.
>
>If you want people to help you, you have to provide the boot messages from the serial
>console. Anything else ends up in a guessing game.
>
>Adrian
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