[rescue] Help needed with Sun V65x

[Lionel Peterson]

Agree with all, but want to note while it lacks LOM it does include serial
re-direct of console.

Thanks,

Lionel

> On Feb 18, 2014, at 10:30 AM, Peter Stokes <peter at ashlyn.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> All the X series, ie x86 kit have a normal BIOS as in normal PC server. You
> also normally get a console LOM port which is useful for remote work and
> debugging. Note V6Xx does not have LOM port, later systems do.
>
> On the USB, the Sun Spec does not say in the handbook, but I would take
that
> as USB 1 not 2 given its age (2003) and the fact that it was soon replaced,
> this was Sun's first foray at x86 servers and was a third party box as was
its
> successor the V20Z and V40Z, however there are many more V20Z out there
than
> V6Xx from my experience.
>
> Peter
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>> On 18 Feb 2014, at 14:29, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 04:21:22PM +0200, Andrew Gaylard wrote:
>>>> On 02/18/14 16:11, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 09:08:20AM -0500, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>>>> You are confusing this with 'real' Sun kit, this is an Intel MB w/ PC
> BIOS, no
>>>>> OBP.
>>>> No obp? Time to die-grind the Sun badge off.
>>> I agree.  I *hate* the PC BIOS.
>>>
>>> I'd be much more predisposed to x86 kit if Sun/Oracle would build it
>>> with OBP.
>>
>> Does that mean even their heavy-duty stuff like X4540s don't have obp?!
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