2/12 Sun Ultra 1 crashed recently and never got back up again.
It always gives the following error:
No keyboard. Using input device ttya.
Using output device ttya.
Borrowed another department's Ultra 2 to move our data
elsewhere and it worked fine for about a day, then
suddenly, we got the same message. Tried every combination
of different keyboards (we have 3), different processors,
even different monitors to workstations. The Ultra 2
still won't boot up anymore.
Has anybody else seen this kind of a problem?
-- newbie.
\_ from the monitor, you can do a bunch of diagnostic tests.
Hook up a tty to ttya and do the tests.
\_ time to move to NT..
\_ This kind of reminds me of the saying "In order to cure
the patient, you end up killing them." or better yet
"Kill the patient in order to cure them"
\_ yeah, that way, you don't have to worry about trying to fix
it. There's nothing you can do.
\_ That's *not* true! You can reinstall. Duh!
\_ This sounds like a hw problem. You can reinstall
solaris too, you know...
\_ No mouse. Panic. Logging in as Administrator.
\_ Then why don't you set up a NT machine with the same
hardware as Soda, and give us accounts. Then we can test
the performance, how well walling works, how many users
it supports, how motd's look etc.
\_ sounds like you just basically fried the keyboard controller.. if no
keyboard work then definitely.. replace motherboard.. it may still
be under warranty so check w/ Sun. -shac
\_ this happened to me with a sparc 5. my keybd cable was loose,
but after reconnecting the cable and rebooting, i got the mesg
that you got. I forgot exactly what i did to fix it, but it
might have been something like disconnecting the keybd and/or
monitor, rebooting, and then reconnecting everything back up
and rebooting. just experiment, then again it might be a
hardware problem.
\_ maybe your power's dirty.
\_ this means that the sun thinks you've got it hooked up to
an external terminal, so it doesn't need to activate the keyboard.
You need to hook up a terminal (a pc with term software, or another
sun running tip) to its serial port and reset its terminal mode from
the boot prompt. |
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