[SunRescue] bringing alive SS2

[Ken Hansen]

what you want to do is this:

1) add the serial terminal to port A, set for 9600-8-n-1 (baud, word,
parity, stop bits)

2) make sure there is no keyboard attached

3) power up the terminal, then the SS/2

4) after the ss/2 comes alive, you need to interrupt the boot process - this
would typically be stop-a (or L1-a) held down, but since you don't have a
keyboard, try the break key(?) (if all else fails, you could simply
disconnet the internal HD and power up, the boot will fail and drop you into
the openboot monitor.

5) once the boot proces stops, type 'n' <enter> to make sure you are in new
command mode

6) type printenv <enter> see what auto-boot? and boot-device are set to.

7) type 'setenv auto-boot? false' <enter>

8) type 'setenv boot-device disk' <enter>

9) type 'printenv' <enter> to confirm the above changes

10) power down
 (re-attach the HD if you disconnected it in setp 4 above)

11) power up

12) you should wind up at an 'ok >' prompt - this is where you will type
boot disk (to use the internal drive), boot net (to boot off a tftp server),
or boot cdrom (if you have one).

The above should get you started, take a look at www.sunhelp.org,
www.ultralinux.org for additionla platform information. Also, I assume you
have reviewed the Red Hat documentation, including all SPARC
supplements/chapters?

HTH,

Ken


----- Original Message -----
From: "Valentine" <valik at softhome.net>
To: "Greg A. Woods" <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 19, 2001 2:31 PM
Subject: Re[2]: [SunRescue] bringing alive SS2


>
> GAW> Do you have anything that'll serve as an RS-232 terminal, at least
until
> GAW> you get it running and wheneer you need to reboot?  If so then you
can
> GAW> just use it without keyboard or monitor on the serial console.
Someone
> GAW> posted some nice instructions here just the other day....
>
> well ...
> I have a linux box to boot from, currently it's acting as a firewall.
> As about a terminal I've got NCD 19r one, but as I understand I'll
> need to use tftp to boot it into something, so I can't connect it
> directly into the SS2.
>
> My only confusion is that, I have no idea how to boot the SS2, when I
> power it on, hard drive does something, AUI converter is flashing, so
> I assume something is going on. But I have no clue how to get some
> video output from it. null-modem connection from serial A?
> or there is some chance of using NCD terminal, w/o booting it?
>
>
> thanks a lot.
> val.
>
>
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