[SunRescue] bringing alive SS2

[Gil Young]

Get a null modem to serial A and see what the output says.  Then lets go 
from there :).

You could have :

1) a functioning system.
2) A system that needs NVRAM work  e.g. your MAC address is 
ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff (not as bad as it sounds, really! There is a FAQ that 
deals with it)
3) A system that needs an OS (cake, you can D/L the Solaris ISO images from 
the sun site).
4) A fried system (not likely, they were built pretty tough)

Be sure to note how much memory and drive you have, and if the MAC address 
seems screwy, to report back to the group.  I am sure between all of us we 
will be able to get you up and running.

Gil

At 02:31 PM 4/19/01 -0400, you wrote:

>GAW> Do you have anything that'll serve as an RS-232 terminal, at least until
>GAW> you get it running and wheneer you need to reboot?  If so then you can
>GAW> just use it without keyboard or monitor on the serial console.  Someone
>GAW> posted some nice instructions here just the other day....
>
>well ...
>I have a linux box to boot from, currently it's acting as a firewall.
>As about a terminal I've got NCD 19r one, but as I understand I'll
>need to use tftp to boot it into something, so I can't connect it
>directly into the SS2.
>
>My only confusion is that, I have no idea how to boot the SS2, when I
>power it on, hard drive does something, AUI converter is flashing, so
>I assume something is going on. But I have no clue how to get some
>video output from it. null-modem connection from serial A?
>or there is some chance of using NCD terminal, w/o booting it?
>
>
>thanks a lot.
>val.
>
>
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