Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:03:51 -0700 From: "William Lloyd" <wlloyd@slap.net> To: <freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org> Cc: <wlloyd@slap.net> Subject: Ultra 5 problems Message-ID: <000501c21d4c$97ed5a70$0264a8c0@slap.net>
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Ok, I did a dumb thing. Despite knowing better I assumed that the Ultra 5 series machines had standard PC serial ports on the back. No problem, pull out my laplink cable, plug it into serial port b, setenv in the Openboot and reboot. Now I can't get back onto the thing. It's booting for console on serial b I assume but the kernel crashes. That was the original reason to switch the console to serial so I could capture the boot error and post it to the group. I did a make buildworld yesterday and it worked fine. kernel has some error with setrootbyname failed. This is all with latest -current cvsup from yesterday. Anyway, not really a problem if I can get console back! Plugging back in keyboard etc doesn't seem to work. Turn power on while holding Stop-A does nothing. I can't seem to get serial b actually working. Problably requires a crossover on the Tx-Rx. I've triend all the varients of plugging and unplugging, keyboard, video, serial but none of them have worked so far. I find jumpers on the mobo for switching between RS422 and RS-232. No mention in searching the internet which serial port that applies to. Desfault is RS-422. Must be ttyb I'm thinking now. Why does sun use a female DB25 for a serial port? What the deal. How do I get back my regular console. -bill wlloyd@slap.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message
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