[Sunhelp] problem with e150 -

[Christopher J Ceska]

one of our sysadmins who has been here forever shed some light on this.

Aparently, even though it is a server and has no framebuffer, you have to
plug a keyboard in it, and hold down the power key on the keyboard, while
turning the rest of the unit on.  pretty stupid for a server.  Anyone know
how to bypass this?  are there any openboot variables that I could change
to allow it to just look for the console?  I have a feeling that the power
switch on the back means nothing to the system board, it just turns power
on the the entire unit, then depressing the power key on a keyboard turns
on the ultra.  It sorta sucks cause you have to unplug the keyboard as
soon as you hear the beep so you can use the console!

man this thing is full of styrofoam - it is really a disgrace, when you
think of how much this unit went for a couple years ago.


thanks for the help, let me know if anyone thinks of anything else.

-chris



On Mon, Jun 12, 2000 at 03:54:07PM -0500, Tom Jones wrote:
> When you turn the key do you hear the fan start and do you have any power indication?
> 
> I worked on an E150 a long time ago that had been shutdown with init 5.  This causes the
> power supply to reset, meaning the case had to be opened and the rocker switch pressed on
> the power supply to start the system back up.  Sun's resolution at the time was to replace
> the power supply!  My recommendation back to SunService was to drill a small hole in the back
> of the case, similar to a floppy eject hole, that would allow the user to insert a paperclip
> and depress the power supply rocker switch.
> 
> Hope this helps!
> Tom Jones
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: James Lockwood <james at foonly.com>
> To: <sunhelp at sunhelp.org>
> Sent: Monday, June 12, 2000 2:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [Sunhelp] problem with e150 -
> 
> 
> > On Mon, 12 Jun 2000, Christopher J Ceska wrote:
> > 
> > > We just recently decided to try to bring an e150 back to life to be a
> > > syslog server.  I am currently having some trouble with it booting.
> > > It doesnt like to be connected to the console at all - connected to my
> > > sparc20 desktop running kermit, I get nothing.  I get no beep with a
> > > keyboard attached.  and it doesnt seem to boot?  any ideas?
> > 
> > An E150 is basically a U1/170 in a really really bad case.  Does it power
> > up at all?
> > 
> > -James
> > 
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