[SunHELP] cant boot sparc5

Chris Barnes runtimeerror at bigpond.com
Mon May 20 08:51:41 CDT 2002


hi people, I think i made a big mistake...i set the baud rate for ttya to
115200 on the prom. now i'm having trouble booting it. At first there was
nothing comming up in the terminal from the sun machine, now i am getting
info that looks like checks but the systems keeps stopping at a certain
check:
8.1.1	dma	apc		bypass			Pass

absolutly nothing else comes up after that...earlier in the checks it says
"SPARCstation 5, Keyboard found" but i dont have a keyboard plugged in.
If i plug a keyboard in and boot, nothing comes up on the terminal at all so
i'm guessing it detected the keyboard and it sending everythign to the
screen...that would be good if i had a monitor that worked with it.

anyway, would the solution be as simple as placing a jumper over 2 system
board pins to reset the prom to factory defaults or cant this be done? if it
can be done, where do i find the pins to jump coz there's a few on the board
and i dont wanna jump the wrong ones.
..or is this problem even worse than i thought?

any help appreciated! thanks very much



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