Damon Getsman <dgetsman@gmail.com> wrote:
> I have gotten a 'Hardware Power ON'
> from it, about 10 minutes ago, and nothing else as of yet. The
> Solaris 10 Sparc CDRom #1 is in the drive and awaiting some semblance
> of a booting procedure or the 'OK' prompt for me to type 'boot cdrom'
> at right now.
>
> I've heard these machines take awhile to boot up. I didn't know it'd
> be this long. Wonder if something is fried in the hardware.

Could be. If the box is filled (8CPU and 8GB of RAM), then startup
takes a long time (and there's a setting or two to modify how much
checking is done during powerup). But for a smaller machine, it
shouldn't take 10 minutes to see something on the console.

If you never got anything, you can try powering off and then putting the
keyswitch in the diag position (wavy line) and see if you get additional
output.

Most failures will spit something to the serial line though....

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Darren Dunham ddunham@taos.com
Senior Technical Consultant TAOS http://www.taos.com/
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