[SunRescue] Off Topic: Rescuing my Sun

[Ken Caruso]

Hmm,

	Maybe I misunderstood you but if you have the keyboard plugged in,
it will not send the output to serial, you need to boot it with the
keyboard unplugged for the ouput to go to the serial port. Also once you
do that, check to make sure that you are using the right type of serial
cable. When got my first sun-box it took me about three tries to get the
right type of serial cable. There is also a key sequence to force all diag
output to the serial port, I think it is stop-d. I dont know if it works
on sparc2's, only used on ultras.

Ken

On 20 May 2001, Gregory Leblanc wrote:

> I couldn't resist, sorry.  :)  Anyway, I've got a pair of SPARCstation
> 2's sittin here next to me, both of which are being a royal PITA.  I
> took the frame buffers out of them a few months ago, and told them to
> ust ttya for input and output.  They were working when I shut them down,
> but now they seem to be dead.  I plugged in a keyboard, and it beeps,
> and runs through some blinken lights, but I never get any output on the
> serial console.  Here's what the leds do...
> 
> all lights flash at power on
> all lights blink on 
> caps is on, the other three lights cycle 5 times
> caps blinks off, scroll blinks on
> caps is on, other three lights cycle 3 times
> then all of them blink on, then off, then blink on again, and then
> they're done blinking
> 
> Anybody know what those mean, or have any ideas for things to try?
> Thanks,
> 	Greg
> 
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