Hello everybody,

maybe someone else cn help me with my problem:

i have to learn Solaris so i bought a 10 years old Ultra60 sun
workstation. But this workstation does not boot.

I have no monitor attached, but a VT100 Terminal on Serial A Slot and
the original keyboard and mouse. What happens is:

- workstation beeps
- Keyboard lights are flashing
- CDRom Drive is flickering and this does not stop
- nothing else happens

the CDRom drive flickers on and on, but i cannot open the CD tray to
insert a boot CDRom.

The system seems to have "nothing" on the 9GB HDD drive the seller
told me.

Configuration:
- Ultra 60
- 9 GB HDD
- 512 MB RAM
- 24x CDROM
- no Floppy
- no Monitor

Has anybody an idea what is wrong here? Maybe something with my VT100
Terminal (PC with Hyperterm and RS232 Cable) and therefore the sun
waits for a terminal?

Thanks for any idea!

Best Regards,
Marco.aå

"marco" <mviehl@gmx.de> writes:

>I have no monitor attached, but a VT100 Terminal on Serial A Slot and
>the original keyboard and mouse. What happens is:

Remove the keyboard and mouse; if a keyboard is attached, there will
be no output to the terminal.

For good measure, you can try (with keyboard) to hold down the
L1 (or stop) key together with the N key during power-on; this will
reset the EEPROM.

>- workstation beeps
>- Keyboard lights are flashing
>- CDRom Drive is flickering and this does not stop

That is somewhat strange; typically it would attempt to boot from
the CD and then stop.

Disconnect the keyboard then retry.

Casper
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Statements on Sun products included here are not gospel and may
be fiction rather than truth.

marco wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> maybe someone else cn help me with my problem:
>
> i have to learn Solaris so i bought a 10 years old Ultra60 sun
> workstation. But this workstation does not boot.
>
> I have no monitor attached, but a VT100 Terminal on Serial A Slot and
> the original keyboard and mouse. What happens is:
>
> - workstation beeps
> - Keyboard lights are flashing
> - CDRom Drive is flickering and this does not stop
> - nothing else happens
>
> the CDRom drive flickers on and on, but i cannot open the CD tray to
> insert a boot CDRom.
>
> The system seems to have "nothing" on the 9GB HDD drive the seller
> told me.
>
> Configuration:
> - Ultra 60
> - 9 GB HDD
> - 512 MB RAM
> - 24x CDROM
> - no Floppy
> - no Monitor
>
> Has anybody an idea what is wrong here? Maybe something with my VT100
> Terminal (PC with Hyperterm and RS232 Cable) and therefore the sun
> waits for a terminal?

Disconnect the Sun Keyboard and Mouse!! When it sees keyboard and mouse
it thinks output should be sent to the graphics device and monitor.

Without the keyboard and mouse you set your VT100 to 9600 baud (8N1) 8
bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. You should then get a prompt from the
PROM Monitor displayed on the VT100.

marco wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> maybe someone else cn help me with my problem:
>
> i have to learn Solaris so i bought a 10 years old Ultra60 sun
> workstation. But this workstation does not boot.
>
> I have no monitor attached, but a VT100 Terminal on Serial A Slot and
> the original keyboard and mouse. What happens is:
>
> - workstation beeps
> - Keyboard lights are flashing
> - CDRom Drive is flickering and this does not stop
> - nothing else happens
>
> the CDRom drive flickers on and on, but i cannot open the CD tray to
> insert a boot CDRom.
>
> The system seems to have "nothing" on the 9GB HDD drive the seller
> told me.
>
> Configuration:
> - Ultra 60
> - 9 GB HDD
> - 512 MB RAM
> - 24x CDROM
> - no Floppy
> - no Monitor
>
> Has anybody an idea what is wrong here? Maybe something with my VT100
> Terminal (PC with Hyperterm and RS232 Cable) and therefore the sun
> waits for a terminal?
>
> Thanks for any idea!
>
> Best Regards,
> Marco.aå
>

Also, a null modem RS232 cable is required, or a null modem adapter
applied to the end of your RS232 cable.

--
M. Baker