[SunHELP] help mission cridical machine can't connect to it after power out age power led and disk is on (no console)

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

If you have a keyboard plugged in then graphics will go to the graphics 
card, even if there isn't one. So leave the keyboard unplugged and try 
the serial port again.

HTH

Jeremy

Joseph Ndoye wrote:

>Hi please anyone out there help mission cridical machine
>
>Here's a description of our problems.
>
>The machine is an E220R
>
>
>Problem: There was a power outage about 1-2 hours ago.  When we go to boot
>the box up, the yellow LED on the front of the machine stays on.
>
>POST runs successfully according to the LEDs on the keyboard (i.e. when you
>power on, there is a beep, followed by all 4 keyboard LEDs coming on
>briefly, then coming on briefly again).
>
>Disk and power supply LEDs are fine.  
>
>There is no graphics card, so we tried to use the parallel port.  This works
>fine on our other machine, but on this machine it doesn't.
>
>After the power has been on for a little bit (several seconds), the machine
>is pingable, but you can't telnet in.
>
>
>Thanks 
>Joseph
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