[rescue] SPARC Serial Console

[Bill Vinson]

On Sat, Oct 26, 2002 at 11:19:59PM -0400, Dave McGuire wrote:
> On Saturday, October 26, 2002, at 11:08 PM, Bill Vinson wrote:
> >Should I be able to see anything on the serial console for the SPARC 5
> >that has no memory in it?  Or does the firmware only boot when memory 
> >is
> >on the board?  Just curious before I start considering buying ram :)
> 
>   You need RAM...it'll act as dumb as a windows box without it.

Thanks, I assumed as much, but didn't want to pick up any ram if it was
just a big dead weight. Well, more if I could verify in advance it was a
big dead weight. It may still be screwed, but as I can verify more and
more things the chances of it being useless go down :)

Thanks for the help,
Bill