Re: Ultra 10 - no output to monitor

On 2007-12-07, Flatulous Maximus <none@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7 Dec 2007 04:01:48 GMT, "DoN. Nichols" <dnichols@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

<snip>

Thanks DoN. Excellent help. Yes, I'm already pretty familiar with
the jumpers on the SCSI card and I think I had them set properly.

I think that for most situations in Suns, off for all switches
works well.

My
own research has led me to the conclusion that I also need to upgrade
the OBP from 3.19 to 3.31. I got the file
flash-update-Ultra510-latest from SunSolve, but I'm in kind of a catch
22 in that it appears you need to install it from hard disk:

ok boot disk /flash-update-Ultra510-latest

having previously put the file at the root with chmod 755. I tried
burning a CD on my PC with only the flash file on it and booting from
that:

ok boot cdrom /flash-update-Ultra510-latest

but it choked because no proper file system on the CD. Is there any
way to upgrade the OBP from cdrom?

Sure -- if you can burn a Unix file system on the CD -- which
again requires your running system.

Get a cheap, minimal size IDE drive (didn't one come with the
system) and install the OS stripped bare on it, then do the flash
upgrade. A 20 GB IDE drive should be more than enough, and those are
being thrown away by PC users these days. (BTW -- your maximum IDE
drive in that system is just a little over 120 GB.) You can put in a
larger one, but you can't use it all -- just the first 127 GB or
something like that.

Good Luck,
DoN.

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