[SunRescue] 690MP questions

[Hatle, Steven J.]

Not to ask a dumb question, but did you plug in a Sun keyboard as well?
That's what the systems checks for and decides to use the serial A as
console (no keyboard in the keyboard port) or the framebuffer/keyboard
(keyboard plugged in).

Likely that this machine was in a server room somewhere, the PROM might be
set to specify serial A as the console. You can use a PC with a null modem
cable to plug into serial A (9600 8N1) and see what happens.

If you get to the point where you get one LED blinking steadily, that means
that the machine has passed POST, and is looking for the boot device. If you
get to another combo of on/off LED's, I or other folks on the list can look
up the combo and tell you where you are stuck.

Hope that helps.

Steve

-----Original Message-----
From: Jerome R Radcliffe [mailto:jrr1 at sss.eng.wayne.edu]
Sent: Thursday, March 30, 2000 9:53 AM
To: rescue at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunRescue] 690MP questions




I've got a working 690MP here with the same configuration. Do any of the
leds stay on on the back of the mainboard?  Mine seemed to work just fine.
Also you might want to try connecting to the serial port to see if there
are errors.....


Jay

Jay Radcliffe 
Unix Administrator 
College of Engineering Wayne State University
jay at eng.wayne.edu

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Eric Randall wrote:

> I picked up a 690MP just the other day.  I stuck a single slot gx
> framebuffer in one of the SBUS slots on the main board thinking this
> would automatically be used as
> the console.  The machine fires up, the roaring of the fans, the wierd
> blinking/marquee leds are flashing and doing strange things,  etc., but
> the monitor just blinked once, then nothing.  Can someone tell me what I
> should be doing (besides pulling my head out)?   I've been having a hard
> time finding information on this machine as well. The hardware FAQ seems
> to not have as much on the 4/6xx machines.  The sun docs site has
> apparently retired any information regarding these.  Thanks for any
> suggestions.
> 
> 
> 
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