At 03:55 PM 2/8/98 -0500, Dave McGuire wrote:
>On February 8, Rick Copeland wrote:
>> I have a Sun Sparc 330,  I am trying to netboot (diskless).  The color frame
>> buffer does not work or work with my color monitor and so I cannot get the
>> ethernet address (for example: 8:0:20:7:c5:c7 this is the example from
>> diskless(8)) that usually shows when the computer first comes up.  Is there
>> another way to get the ethernet address from the serial port in diagnostics
>> mode?
>
>  You'll get the same info on a serial console as you would from a
>graphical console.  Switch into diag mode and power up the
>machine...eventually the diags will complete, and you'll see the
>regular power-up banner that lists the ROM rev, the IDPROM sysid, and
>the MAC address.
>
>  You should be able to abort the diagnostics by hitting <esc> after
>they start up...if I recall correctly, this works on the 4/400, I'm
>not sure about the 4/300...but it's worth a try.

After the diagnostics the console comes back with "type a character in 10
seconds or (e for echo mode)".  But the power up banner never comes up.  The
cpu diagnostics switch is in "diag".

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rick Copeland