Got the answer I needed within no time - all the respondents pointed to
the eeprom settings, and in particular the setting that was causing all the
problems, which was:
ttya-ignore-cd=false
change the 'false' to 'true' and everything went fine. Dont know how it got
changed in the first place but I know where to look in future.
Thanks to the following:
Darren Brechman-Toussaint <darren@bne.secmail.com.au>
artur <artur@compugen.co.il>
bismark@alta.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Bismark Espinoza)
My Original post:
> Hello,
>
> We've been having a problem with booting our Classic running 2.5.
> The machine in question has no head so we tried to connect it to another
> server via the serial port so we could use 'tip' to access the console
> remotely.
> We couldnt get this working so we restored the settings and
> secured a VT100 to use as a console. Now however the machine hangs on boot
> when the console is attached (via the serial A/B port) - it gets as far
> as the Solaris 2.5 copyright message and then you get the "spinning cursor"
> forever.
> When we take the "head" off our sparcstation4 and use that as the
> console, however, the machine boots fine. We've tried various things
> including 'boot -r' but to no avail. In the past the machine had a VT-type
> console and we had no problems, so I can only assume the tinkering we
> did to try and accomodate tip has damaged something.
>
> Any ideas gratefully received.
>
> David Poulet
David
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