I need to bring up a Power2 590 but without a monitor. I come from a
Sun/Solaris environment. In the Sun world, all I need is to unplug the
monitor and keyboard, and connect the ttya to either a Sun or PC, I
will get the console.

I am new to AIX, I tested a similar setup on a 43P-150 machine and was
able to get until the following.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Welcome to AIX.
boot image timestamp: 04:03 03/03
The current time and date: 01:27:58 09/16/2004
number of processors: 1 size of memory: 1024Mb
boot device: /pci@80000000/scsi@10/sd@5:2
closing stdin and stdout...
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I expect I will get similar result with the Power2 590, is it correct?
But, how can I get pass the "closing stdin and stdout", I need to get
a login prompt.

Any help will be appreciated.

thanks

anna schrieb:

> I need to bring up a Power2 590 but without a monitor. I come from a
> Sun/Solaris environment. In the Sun world, all I need is to unplug the
> monitor and keyboard, and connect the ttya to either a Sun or PC, I
> will get the console.
>

1.) You'll need a fully wired nullmodem cable. STFG for the pinout.
9600-8N1 with a vt100 emulation worked for me on all machines.

If there is no Operating system installed, you won't see anyting on a
590 but three-digit-codes on the panel.

2.) Drop a AIX installation CD in the CD-ROM, put the keylock to service
position and your 590 should boot from the CD and after a while you are
prompted to press 1, 2 or 3 on your terminal to select the console. The
number depends on which port your terminal is connected.

If this prompt does not appear, go to step 1.)

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Uli

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Uli,

thank you.
But why would I got "closing stdin and stdout" in my test with
43P-150?
Does it mean that I use an incorrect cable (I would assume I wouldn't
see anything, but I did)? or that there was already OS installed that
I need to do something in the OS level?

I am going to give your suggestion a try on the 590.

anna


Uli Link <spamkuebel.csiph@linkitup.homeunix.com> wrote in message news:<414947f0$0$26103$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net>...
> anna schrieb:
>
> > I need to bring up a Power2 590 but without a monitor. I come from a
> > Sun/Solaris environment. In the Sun world, all I need is to unplug the
> > monitor and keyboard, and connect the ttya to either a Sun or PC, I
> > will get the console.
> >
>
> 1.) You'll need a fully wired nullmodem cable. STFG for the pinout.
> 9600-8N1 with a vt100 emulation worked for me on all machines.
>
> If there is no Operating system installed, you won't see anyting on a
> 590 but three-digit-codes on the panel.
>
> 2.) Drop a AIX installation CD in the CD-ROM, put the keylock to service
> position and your 590 should boot from the CD and after a while you are
> prompted to press 1, 2 or 3 on your terminal to select the console. The
> number depends on which port your terminal is connected.
>
> If this prompt does not appear, go to step 1.)