[SunHELP] booting a Enterprise 3500

[Dale Ghent]

On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, William Enestvedt wrote:

| > I just got a new/used Enterprise 3500.
| >
|    Nice. :7)
| >
| > On the front, there are 3 LEDs.  The left is green, the
| > middle is slowly blinking yellow, the right is off.
| >
|    Read this:
| http://sunsolve.sun.com/handbook_pub/General/LEDs/Exx00_LEDs.html
|    (I got the link from the Sun System Handbook link on the main Sunsolve
| page.) It matches my recollection, which is that the 3500 will takes its
| own, sweet time running POST, and it flashes the LEDs in the manner you
| describe.
|    Someone else posted a while back about a "new" 3000 which she thought was
| dead, but which was just sloooow coming up); fire it up and sit back. (A
| magazine may be of use here...)

If you hit the 'v' key during the POST check, it will start ouputting the
test results to the screen. This is a handy way of making sure that the
machine is actually doing *something*

/dale