Re: Sun Enterprise 3500 server boot/video issue
From: Lawrence Statton N1GAK/XE2 (lawrence_at_hummer.cluon.com)
Date: 11/17/04
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Date: 17 Nov 2004 08:27:24 -0800
Well, a few things:
1) The POST is very lengthy. When I got my E3000 off of eBay, I was
insufficiently patient. The POST took a whole *TEN MINUTES* to
run, before it initialized the first CG6. I upgraded to the latest
FCODE and OBP, and now the post is a mere SIX minutes. Even six
minutes seems like an eternity when you're staring at a blank
screen waiting.
2) For a first boot, rather than sticking on a keyboard and frame
buffer, try bringing it up with a serial console. (If all you have
is windows-trash, you should be able to cobble together a
null-modem cable and use Hyperterminal or download TeraTerm which
is preferred[1])
3) Just because you (apparently) have a PCI I/O board doesn't mean you
can stick any old PCI peripherals you have lying around in it.
AIUI you need platform specific ROMs on the PCI hardware - and a
junk-box video card is highly unlikely to have Sun OBP FCode ROMs.
4) If I had one, I'd sell the PCI board - they go for Big Bucks,
because they are so rare. It is highly unlikely you'll ever "need"
it. (Unless, of course that's the ONLY I/O board you have, which
case you'll need it to talk to your FC-AL boot disks.) Although
I'd still reccomend unloading the PCI board, and using the money to
buy an SBus IO board - and another CPU board and some more memory![2]
5) Speaking of FC-AL, you do know that you need a SC/SC jumper from
the IO card over to the FC-AL distribution card in the last slot,
right?
Footnotes:
[1] - TeraTerm allows you to send break quasi-reliably. However, the
GDFWB ($DEITY Cursed Fornicating Windows Box) I scrounged for such
purpose was further cursed by not having serial ports. So I bought a
USB/Serial adapter -- which works like a champ, EXCEPT there appears
to be no way to send a break through it (Teraterm failed, Kermit95
failed). I finally dug up an old P90 laptop and a Knoppix CD and use
minicom on the laptop as my "serial terminal of last resort".
[2] - Honest! I bought a complete E3000 on eBay for $102.50 with a
pair of 400 MHz CPUsw/ 1G of memory, and an SBus IO board.
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