The charity recycling project where I volunteer
has been donated a Sun Ultra5. It's in near
perfect condition, but doesn't complete the boot
process.

It looks to be a 400MHz machine, with four 64MB
DIMMs and an LSI Logic SCSI card. The hard disk
has been removed, but everything else seems to be
present. I'm testing it with a Type 6 keyboard.

The immediate symptom is that there's no display
on the monitor. I hooked up a dumb terminal to
the serial port, and enabled the full POST.

The POST checks run fine, and report a pass. The
system then tries to boot normally, but hangs...

Sun Ultra 5/10 UPA/PCI 3.25 version/created 200/01/14 13:40
Probing keyboard Done

Skipping POST because of L1 keyboard command

Cleaning E$ Tags Done
Cleaning I/D TLBs Done
Probing Memory Done
MEM BASE = 0000.0000.1000.0000
MEM SIZE = 0000.0000.0800.0000
11-Column Mode Enabled
MMUs ON
Copy Done
PC = 0000.01ff.f000.201c
PC = 0000.0000.0000.2060
Decompressing into Memory Done
Size = 0000.0000.0006.e323

The cursor sits at the end of the "Size" line, and
the system goes no further.

Can anyone suggest what might be wrong, or further
testing I can do to help diagnose the problem?

Thanks for your help.

Nick.

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Nick Chalk ................. once a Radio Designer
Confidence is failing to understand the problem.