[rescue] Sun Enterprise 3500 Wont Boot Solaris

[Chris Hanson]

On Sep 19, 2017, at 6:11 PM, Carl R. Friend <crfriend at rcn.com> wrote:
>
>   I've got a DG AViiON that I suspect is dead for the very same
> reason -- and there's no doco on the blasted thing that I can find.
> That one doesn't even emit a single character on the serial line
> when powered up.

Ibve learned a bit about Data General AViiON systems recently. It may want
9600/7/E/1 rather than 8/N/1 on its serial port for a terminal. Control-C or
break during a boot attempt may also bring it up. If itbs a workstation, it
may require not having a keyboard attached to use serial console.

At the consolebs SCM> prompt, control-i is supposed to cause it to
reinitialize the battery-backed RAM (which DG called NOVRAM) so if you can
manage to get a prompt at all, that may be all you need to do to boot the rest
of the way.

What model AViiON is it and whatbs the configuration?

  -- Chris