[SunHELP] Solaris installation through serial port doesnot respond

[Jeremy RJ Towers]

Hi Wade,

First be sure that you don't have a Sun keyboard connected. If 
connected, there will be no console output to ttya.

Second , connect a SUN keyboard and set defaults by holding down stop 
and  key N whilst powering on.

For interests sake, there are a few ways to go about this:

>
>     Power On Commands
>
>     STOP bypasses POST. STOP-A aborts POST. STOP-D forces a diagnostic
>     power on. The NVRAM Parameter diag-switch? is set to true.
>     Not supported by USB Keyboards. STOP-F forces input and output to
>     ttya. Input from the Keyboard is disabled except for L1-A.
>     Not supported by USB Keyboards. STOP-N forces a set-defaults of
>     the NVRAM.
> Not supported by USB Keyboards.
>


HTH

Jeremy

wade chy wrote:

>Hi All
>I am trying to install Solaris 8 on an old Ultra
>Enterprise 2 without a sun monitor. There is two 25
>pin serial connectors A & B. I have hooked up a serial
>cable to A and the other end to my PCs 9 pin serial
>port. When I powered the sun box. It does not give any
>prompt to my PCs hyperterm. I tried to use an terminal
>program named Teraterm. But nothing seems to work. Is
>there any way to find out if the serial port on the
>sun box is working or not? Please help.
>Thank you in advance.
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