[rescue] onyx help

[Geoff Koehler]

on 8/22/02 22:40, Dan Sikorski at me at dansikorski.com spake thusly:

> As i mentioned, i finally got a power cable for my onyx, and got it
> powered up.  the lcd screen goes through a bunch of tests which seem to
> be sucessful, and then it says
> 
> Startup Complete.
> B+
> 
> and that's all i get.
> no video signal
> 
> i have two thoughts:
> 1. i have the wrong kind keyboard on it (i just have the ps2 keyboard
> from my o2 on it)
> 2. it's missing an os, or other important software
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> -Dan Sikorski
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> rescue list - http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/rescue
Hi,

The keyboard is definately wrong.  Onyxes (onyxi?) require an indigo type
keybard, not a PS2.  In the absence of a detected keybaord, its probably
just sending the console output out the serial port.  You might need to
connect a terminal to the DB9 labelled system console tty_1 to see what its
doing.   Or, if you have an indigo - steal its keyboard.   Hope this helps.


Cheers, Geoff

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