[SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun

[Gregory Leblanc]

On 21 May 2001 00:37:19 -0500, Dan Debertin wrote:
> On 20 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:
> 
> > all lights flash at power on
> > all lights blink on
> > caps is on, the other three lights cycle 5 times
> > caps blinks off, scroll blinks on
> > caps is on, other three lights cycle 3 times
> > then all of them blink on, then off, then blink on again, and then
> > they're done blinking
> 
> I have a few pieces of sun4c gear here that all do the same thing, in the
> same sequence, and they're operating fine. I don't think the kbd lights
> are your problem. The problem is that you're plugging in a keyboard at all
> ;).
> 
> Unplug your keyboard, power it up, then watch the serial console. Once
> your PROM finds that a keyboard is not present, it should use the serial
> port for I/O.

I only plugged in the keyboard because I couldn't get any output on the
serial console...  I'm using the same cable that I was when I first set
these machines up.  :-/
	Greg