mike@mittelman.net (Mike) writes:
>Has anyone ever seen this:
>
>I am working on an Ultra80. With a valid boot disk, the system boots
>up to the CDE login screen fine, but does not display any boot up
>messages...the screen is black until the CDE login appears.
>
>With no disk present, the system powers on, but I get nothing on the
>monitor. I thought that maybe the system was booting to the ok prompt
>just not displaying anything...so I left the system alone for a while,
>inserted the solaris install cd and typed boot cdrom. The system did
>not respond. I only have one valid boot drive and I do not have any
>user account/passwd on it....
>
>
>What can I do?

Have you tried plugging a serial terminal into Serial A and booting
with and without a keyboard? You *do* have a keyboard? Without it,
or if the system cannot "see" it, all the bootloader output goes
out the serial interface.


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