[rescue] IBM RS/6000 3CT

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Mike Johnson wrote:

> > What is the keyswitch set to?
>
> It's set to 'OK'.  I was really happy to see it still had its keys.

Good.  Then it actually is booting the OS (or trying, anyway).

> > Won't work with a Sun monitor, but it would work with quite a few PC
> > monitors.
>
> Bummer.  I've got more spare Sun monitors (2) than PC monitors (0).  :(
> As well, if I can get the serial console up, I'll at least be able to
> get it online until I can get a monitor.

Ping me tomorrow.  I'll get you the resolution and sync information for
that framebuffer.

> > To get serial console, you have to remove the framebuffer.  And you
> > shouldn't have a keyboard and mouse hooked up.
>
> Duh. :)  Thanks.  It's a PS/2 keyboard connector, does any PS/2 keyboard
> work?

Well, there is actually a difference.  The unused pair of leads in the
MiniDIN-6 connector are used to drive a speaker in the RS/6000 keyboard.
Other than that, they are identical.

There is one problem, however.  AIX < 4 will not support a PS/2 keyboard.
AIX >= 4 has no problem with a PS/2 keyboard.

> > No, but AIX tends to grow on you after a while.  It's quite feature-laden.
>
> My problem with AIX is from about five years ago where I adminned a few
> for a project at school.  Back then, it really seemed like I couldn't
> make any configuration changes without using smit(ty), which really got
> on my nerves.  I'm willing to take another swing, though.  Wonder how
> recent the OS install is.  Need to get that console up!

You don't have to use smit.  Smit is just a front end to all the
configuration commandline utils.

> Thanks!  I'm sure I'll have more questions.

I can't wait!

Peace...  Sridhar