Re: ultra 10 serial serial port

Shea Martin <shea08@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an Ultra 10 running Sol 10. It has been running headless for
about 2 years, no keyboard nor monitor. A nice reliable server. It
failed to boot up last night, though the power is on. I suspect it is
sitting in single user mode waiting for me to fsck the disk.

I conneced a monitor, and keyboard (no mouse), and go nothing. Shutdown
and came up via soft-power off/power on with button. monitor flashed,
but no familiar white screen.

If the machine booted without a keyboard, the default is to send the
console to ttya. You wont' get console back on kbd/screen without a
reboot.

My guess is that the last time I used the thing I set the
output-device=ttya or ttyb, and likely the same with input device. But
I can't really remember as it has been so long.

Odd. Normally you just leave it at the default of kbd/screen and then
boot without a keyboard. It will automatically pop over to ttya.

Also there are some error conditions (hardware) where the machine will
die before initializing the screen. So it's easier to go to ttya.

Is there a wayt o reset the eeprom so it uses the monitor keyboard? It
is just easier to temporarily hook those up rather than hunt down the
right cable, and then connect with HyperTerm/WinXP desktop.

Hold down <stop>-<N> during the boot to reset the nvram to defaults.
That will also reset boot devices and such, so you may have to fiddle
with them if they've been changed.

ps - anyone know of a PCMCIA serial card which works with sun's?

Huh? As in a PCMCIA card for a sun? There's no PCMCIA slot on an Ultra
10 certainly.

If you mean in a windows machine to connect to the sun, then no. If
it's a serial port it should work, but I don't have any
recommendations. There's a lot of USB to serial converters as well,
with different levels of success.

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