[SunHELP] SS2: "FAILURE: TOD"

[Aaron Lehmann]

On Sat, Jun 09, 2001 at 03:03:02PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote:
> I recently acquired a SparcStation 2. It has no hard drive nor OS yet.
> I've attempted to boot it up with a serial console attached, but this
> is all the output I get:
> 
> 	WARNING: Unable to determine keyboard type           
> 		FAILURE: TOD (f20007f8) Bit Failure, Exp = 000000ff, Obs = 000000f?

Wow, after days of trying to figure this out, I'm able to answer my
own question (and 5 minutes after the post!).

Turns out the framebuffer (which is some big thing that occupies 2
SBus slots) was interfering with the serial console. Now that I yanked
it it works fine.