Re: Problem with 7.0 RC3 on headless Ultra 60

[John Nemeth <jnemeth%cue.bc.ca@localhost>]

On Sep 6,  1:15pm, Bill Roman wrote:
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} I'm new to this list, fairly new to Sun gear, and have some basic
} familiarity with NetBSD (like I've installed it on a SPARCstation 5 and
} Ultra 10 and played around a little).
} 
} We had a big clear-out at work, and there was a pile of Sun gear that I
} rescued from scrapping, including three Ultra 60s that I'd like to get
} working.  None of them have any video at all.  They are in various
} states of disrepair.  NVRAM batteries are dead on all of them.
} 
} The one that seems to work the best completes its power-on diagnostics
} and can boot the NetBSD 7.0 RC3 Sparc64 CD.  But it gets stuck at the
} first terminal input, tail end of what comes out the serial port is:
} 
} warning: no /dev/console
} 
} 
} You are using a serial console, we do not know your terminal emulation.
} Please select one, typical values are:
} 
}         vt100
}         ansi
}         xterm
} 
} Terminal type (just hit ENTER for 'vt220'):
} 
} At this point it doesn't respond to typing either on the serial port or
} the Sun keyboard.  The Sun keyboard works a bit at this point (Stop-A
} breaks to the debugger, and it can power the system off).
} 
} The serial port works for console output, but not for input; I have to
} type on the Sun keyboard to interact with the firmware.
} 
} I feel rather ignorant about these machines, can anyone with more
} experience offer me a little advice?

     If you don't have any video, you should leave the Sun keyboard
unplugged.  If there is no keyboard plugged in, the machine will
treat the first serial port as console.

}-- End of excerpt from Bill Roman