installation problem on Sun E450

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> From: jacques brierre <jbrierre at bellsouth.net>
> Organization: Mean Mice Elf
> Reply-To: <jbrierre at bellsouth.net>
> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 03:01:26 -0500
> To: m <m at telerama.com>, <freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org>
> Subject: Re: installation problem on Sun E450
> 
> try tterm - it works.
> http://www.ayera.com/teraterm/
> 
> -jb


Downloaded Teraterm.  Hooked up serial cable w/null-modem.

Set it to COM1/9600/8/N/1/hardware control.

Not a thing displayed on the terminal!

I'm really baffled, and need to get this thing up by Monday.

M.



> 
> m wrote:
> 
>>> From: Ken Smith <kensmith at cse.Buffalo.EDU>
>>> Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 00:28:43 -0500
>>> To: m <m at telerama.com>
>>> Cc: <freebsd-sparc64 at freebsd.org>
>>> Subject: Re: installation problem on Sun E450
>>> 
>>> On Thu, Feb 10, 2005 at 06:21:23PM -0500, m wrote:
>>>    
>>> 
>>>> I just picked up a Sun E450, and I'm having installation problems.
>>>> 
>>>> After I get the system banner and the "OK" prompt, I type "boot cdrom", and
>>>> get the following:
>>>> 
>>>> Initializing Memory
>>>> Boot device: /pci at 1f,4000/scsi at 2/disk at 6,0:f  File and args:
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> The cdr DOES spin up, then the system totally freezes.
>>>> 
>>>> I had thought I needed perhaps to have a serial console attached, in
>>>> addition to the keyboard/monitor, but that does not seem to make a
>>>> difference; nothing comes across on the serial terminal either.
>>>> 
>>>> Any help would be MOST appreciated.  If anyone needs more info regarding
>>>> this, just ask & I will provide!
>>>>      
>>>> 
>>> Try it without the keyboard attached at all.
>>> 
>>>    
>>> 
>> 
>> Using Windows HyperTerminal (ugh!), set to 9600/8/N/1, I get absolutely
>> nothing on the terminal!
>> 
>> Suggestions?
>> 
>> M.
>> 
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