[rescue] Nice older equipment I got... a little input

[Kevin Loch]

Andrew Weiss wrote:
> settles on something like 587 or so... there seems to be plenty of drive

(from http://borg.ucsb.edu/howto/aix/AIX_LED_HowTo.html)

587 Configuring a NETBIOS.

Try hooking up a terminal to the serial port(s) and see if one
of them is set as the console.

This may not be your problem but,
AIX is very bad about booting with the wrong/inacessable name 
servers in /etc/resolv.conf.  As a side note, when changing 
ip addresses on an AIX machine, always remove/rename /etc/resolv.conf
first, run smit(ty), then recreate/rename resolv.conf. Do the same thing
if you want
to take a networked machine standalone temporarally.  
It will save you from alot of wasted time on dns timeouts.

KL

> 
> Machine 2... the troublemaker Sparc LX:
> 
> I took 4 16MB sticks and 2 8 MB sticks from another Model 250 and replaced
> the 24MB that was in this unit... this is probably my mistake (is there
> some rule about interleaving?)
> 
> Anyway boot screen thus: (and no it doesn't always appear)
> <3D Logo> Sparcstation LX, Keyboard Present
> ROM Rev 2.10, 96 MB memory installed, Serial #3187982
> Ethernet address 8:0:20:1b:55:4d
> 
> Testing Memory
> Watchdog Reset
> Data Access Exception
> Type help for more information
> OK Memory Address not Aligned
> OK Memory Address not Aligned
> OK Memory Address not Aligned
> OK Watchdog Reset
> OK Data Access Exception
> OK CP Disabled
> OK Data Access Exception
> OK Illegal InsData Access Exception
> OK Memory Address not Aligned
> OK Illegal InsData Access Exception
> 
> (various combos of the above plus one or two other things... but nothing
> can be typed at this point.)
> 
> Regards,
> Andrew
> 
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