Re: [gentoo-sparc] Problem with using ttya as input/output on Sparc Ultra 5

[Norman Warthmann <norman@warthmann.com>]

press Stop+N when/while you power up the machine
and see what happens (you may also try stop+D)

The reason your sparc takes so long to boot is probably because the  
default behavior is to do a complete POST (power-on-self-test) when  
powered on. you should get yourself a handbook on "open boot".

cheers

Norman

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On Jun 10, 2006, at 17:44 PM, krutny wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 2 days ago I've plugged in keyboard to my sparc and nothing  
> happens. So
> I've restarted him and hi welcomed me error message like:
> "Keyboard not present.
> Using ttya for input and output."
>
> I've checked if keyboard is correctly connected but with no result.
>
> So I've started working on connecting with my sparc using ttya. I've
> connected him with my laptop. Downloaded minicom. Setup com device,  
> bps,
> parity bits everything according to
> www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-sparc-faq.xml. After turning on minicom I
> can see that his online so it's good I think. But nothing happens. (I
> have to admit that's my first time using serial console so I can do
> something wrong). I've found
> http://www.idevelopment.info/data/Unix/Solaris/ 
> SOLARIS_UsingSerialConsoles.shtml
> page and according to this I've setup "Init string" to "~^M~".  
> Author of
> this page wrote that after saving this and restarting minicom user
> should get login prompt but nothing like that happens.
>
> Additional problem is that my gentoo on this sparc isn't starting.  
> After
> hot shutdown (by turning off power supply) sometimes SILO wasn't
> starting properly... it was somethin like S....(wait) L....... (longer
> wait) .. Normally I've get SILO in 0.5 second. I've this problem  
> several
> times ago but booting with live-cd ang fsck on harddisk was  
> helpful. Now
> I now (because I've checked logs on this disk in another machine) that
> gentoo isn't starting...
>
> Any help will be appreciated,
> Greetings,
> krutny
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