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....

Sounds like your console output is set to a device that no longer
exists (do you have multiple frame buffers in the machine? or used to?)

Check your output-device in the OBP. You might have to use 'eeprom'
with your bootable disk or get in through TTYA.
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Doug McIntyre merlyn@visi.com
Network Engineer/Jack of All Trades
Vector Internet Services, Inc.