Re: [PLUG] sparc problem

Chris Hedemark <chrish@trilug.org> · Wed, 19 Mar 2003 11:36:21 -0500

On Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 11:21 AM, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
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."

OK so it is dropping to a serial console.  You can still access it via 
null modem cable (this is how I run all my suns at home anyway).
Then the screen goes black.

Right.  Your locally attached monitor is no longer the console.
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 sounds like there may have been some damage in the move.  If you had 
a keyboard plugged in and you got that particular error message, then 
something is amiss.
You can get a null modem cable (NOT a regular modem cable) and console 
in from any old PeeCee with a serial port.  Even from Windoze.  Your 
Sun should have autoconfigured itself to use serial port A as the 
console.  Do you have another computer to use as a console until you 
can figure out what all is wrong?
Serial port settings for the console box should be 9600/8/N/1 with no 
flow control.
Chris Hedemark
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