[-CURRENT] Nothing more on the console?

[Ken Smith]

On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 09:31:25PM +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

> [It could be a hardware problem but it happened right after a "make 
> installworld" in -CURRENT.]
> 
> My UltraSparc 10 no longer boots and displays nothing on the console:
> 
> * with a Sun keyboard and screen, the monitor switches on (green LED) when the 
> machine boots but nothing appears on the screen.
> 
> * with no keyboard and a serial console on port A or B, nothing is displayed.
> 
> I tried to type Stop-N or Stop-A on the Sun keyboard (it was a very long time 
> since I had to use the console, the machine was running headless and I don't 
> remember the NVRAM settings) without results.
> 
> It may be a hardware problem, giving the age of the machine, but I still hope
> the problem is somewhere in the console.

There was some console related work done recently by both me and someone
else so it's possible this is a -current related issue.  BUT as far as
I know if you remove the keyboard there is nothing that would stop the
machine from at least printing the PROM monitor's initial boot-up dialog
to the serial port A.  Even if the NVRAM settings are for "keyboard/screen"
if the machine has no keyboard attached it should convert on its own
to using the serial port.

Do you get this initial PROM-related dialog at all?

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