From owner-freebsd-sparc Wed Jun 26 10: 2:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (tomts16.bellnexxia.net [209.226.175.4]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC09F37B401 for ; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 10:02:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fucker ([65.94.112.87]) by tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.04.19 201-253-122-122-119-20020516) with SMTP id <20020626170231.VPVZ8571.tomts16-srv.bellnexxia.net@fucker>; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:02:31 -0400 Message-ID: <000501c21d4c$97ed5a70$0264a8c0@slap.net> From: "William Lloyd" To: Cc: Subject: Ultra 5 problems Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 13:03:51 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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