Re: help w/U60 - no OBP

Gordon Zaft <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Message-ID <CAGuhNT0AT1dkLi49kLRtW=A1YaOzYC0q1mf9TO-MEtik3sea0Q@mail.gmail.com>
Sorry, I should have been more clear.  This is on the serial port.

I have several U5s and U10, this is my first U60.  I was expecting more
banner messages and POST stuff but this is all I got.  I know the nvram
might be dead but even if it were I should get more than this, right?

G

On Wed, Oct 26, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Michael <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> On Tue, 25 Oct 2016 21:44:29 -0700
> Gordon Zaft <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I was gifted an Ultra 60 and just had a chance to power it up.  I get:
> >
> > Hardware Power ON
> > Master CPU online
> > Master Version <blah>
> > Slave Version <blah>
> >
> > and that's it.  Any ideas?
>
> Huh? Is that on a serial console or a monitor? The machine will default
> to serial if it doesn't find a keyboard, and it should spew POST
> messages on the serial port if it somehow ended up in diagnostic mode.
> If you do have keyboard & monitor hooked up try holding Stop-N while
> powering up ( and keep holding until the screen lights up ) in order to
> override any weird NVRAM settings.
>
> have fun
> Michael
>



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