Re: SparcStation 2 POST

[Jukka Marin <jukka.marin%embedtronics.fi@localhost>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 11:45:53AM -0700, McGrude wrote:
> I am trying to get either to at least give me some reassuring POST results
> (via the keyboard LEDs) and then hopefully I can move on to serial console
> and net-booting NetBSD.
> 
> I've got the Sun (Oracle) SparcStation 2 Field Service manual PDF file but
> it isn't helping with determining what POST is trying to tell me.
> 
> When I power either of them on (with the ram in the correct banks) the LEDs
> quickly move to a state of the CAPS LOCK being solid on, and the COMPOSE,
> SCROLL LOCK, and NUM LOCK, blinking in a repeating sequence one after the
> other.

I think it's worth connecting a terminal to the serial console port.
Another computer with a terminal emulator, for example.

  -jm