Re: [PLUG] sparc problem

[Jeff Abrahamson <jeff@purple.com>]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2003 at 11:21:31AM -0500, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
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> I moved houses, and now my sparc will not boot. I checked www.google.com,
> and read a lot of manpages, to no avail.
> 
> Here's the relevent error:
> 
> "Can't open input device.
> Keyboard not available. Using tty for input and output."
> 
> Then the screen goes black.
> 
> Any ideas? I have read about memory with regards to the problem, but
> pulling the memory and moving it around did not help. Also, I moved the
> video card around to no avail.
> 
> The keyborad was plugged in at all times, and there was no known damage so
> I'm not sure if this is really the problem. I wanted to run it headless
> anyway, but it won't connect via ethernet eventhough I thought I had it
> configged properly (worked headless before I moved). How to set up tty?
> What hardware do I need?

It thinks there's no keyboard, so it's assuming you aren't there and
it should talk over its serial port to some remote operator.

As a first pass, I'd unplog and replug the keyboard and fiddle with
any keyboard connectors in case somethign was jostled loose.

-- 
 Jeff

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