marco wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> maybe someone else cn help me with my problem:
>
> i have to learn Solaris so i bought a 10 years old Ultra60 sun
> workstation. But this workstation does not boot.
>
> I have no monitor attached, but a VT100 Terminal on Serial A Slot and
> the original keyboard and mouse. What happens is:
>
> - workstation beeps
> - Keyboard lights are flashing
> - CDRom Drive is flickering and this does not stop
> - nothing else happens
>
> the CDRom drive flickers on and on, but i cannot open the CD tray to
> insert a boot CDRom.
>
> The system seems to have "nothing" on the 9GB HDD drive the seller
> told me.
>
> Configuration:
> - Ultra 60
> - 9 GB HDD
> - 512 MB RAM
> - 24x CDROM
> - no Floppy
> - no Monitor
>
> Has anybody an idea what is wrong here? Maybe something with my VT100
> Terminal (PC with Hyperterm and RS232 Cable) and therefore the sun
> waits for a terminal?

Disconnect the Sun Keyboard and Mouse!! When it sees keyboard and mouse
it thinks output should be sent to the graphics device and monitor.

Without the keyboard and mouse you set your VT100 to 9600 baud (8N1) 8
bits, no parity and 1 stop bit. You should then get a prompt from the
PROM Monitor displayed on the VT100.