[colug-432] SPARC hardware give/take

[Bill Schwanitz]

Rick,

Depending on which of those machines I gave you there could be some
interesting stuff. The ultra1 I know worked but had a dead eeprom battery
so it'll boot after you type "go". the ultra 30 I think may have been dead
but I never gave it much time/troublshooting.

Both systems you can hook up a serial connection. Assuming you see gunk,
just send a ctrl+break to the terminal and you should see the ok prompt.

If you have the keyboard, l1+a will bring the box to the ok prompt. From
there, boot net ( rarp not dhcp/pxe ) or boot cdrom.

hope that helps.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 12:31 PM, Rick Troth <rmt at casita.net> wrote:

> friends --
>
> I have a (Linux) project that wants a SPARC box for build. Had a working
> machine with a bad memory stick. Then picked up some additional machines
> from Bill Schwanitz (circa 17 months ago). But I'm so rusty with actual
> *Sun* keyboards that I have not been able to wedge Linux onto them. Am
> lost w/r/t knowing when I am seeing a hardware problem (ie with the
> machine) or peripherals or software. (All of them ran Solaris at some
> point; most probably still do ... if they could only boot.)
>
> Am willing to trade the lot for >one< working machine. (And I can offer
> Linux-for-SPARC in several flavors, including my own, for what that's
> worth.) This might also involve an hour or three of guidance.
>
> -- R; <><
>
>
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