Problem booting with terminal

2007-12-25 11:39:00

Got the answer I needed within no time - all the respondents pointed to

the eeprom settings, and in particular the setting that was causing all the

problems, which was:

ttya-ignore-cd=false

change the 'false' to 'true' and everything went fine. Dont know how it got

changed in the first place but I know where to look in future.

Thanks to the following:

Darren Brechman-Toussaint <darren@bne.secmail.com.au>

My Original post:

> Hello,

> We've been having a problem with booting our Classic running 2.5.

> The machine in question has no head so we tried to connect it to another

> server via the serial port so we could use 'tip' to access the console

> remotely.

> We couldnt get this working so we restored the settings and

> secured a VT100 to use as a console. Now however the machine hangs on boot

> when the console is attached (via the serial A/B port) - it gets as far

> as the Solaris 2.5 copyright message and then you get the "spinning cursor"

> forever.

> When we take the "head" off our sparcstation4 and use that as the

> console, however, the machine boots fine. We've tried various things

> including 'boot -r' but to no avail. In the past the machine had a VT-type

> console and we had no problems, so I can only assume the tinkering we

> did to try and accomodate tip has damaged something.

> Any ideas gratefully received.

> David Poulet

David

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