E250 terminal console
Hi
Fairly new to Solaris hence forgive any easy questions ... I've got a e250 server .. trying to create a terminal console over serial ttya .. using hyperterminal ... however, no matter what i do the this won't display anything! ... I doubt it's the cable, i've used it sucessfully connecting to a v120 rj45 (yes! .. using a adapter on the e250 - but i can't imagine thats causing a issue) ..
I've checked the port monitor is running ... pmadm -l shows
PMTAG PMTYPE SVCTAG FLGS ID<PMSPECIFIC>
zsmon ttymon ttyauroot/dev/term/a I - /usr/bin/login - 9600 ldterm,ttcompat ttya login:....
Hence its listening ...
I connect using hyperterminal - settings (com1, 8 N 1, hardware flow control ) .. But nothing comes up
What am i doing wrong? ... is it anything to do with input-device/output-device ... do these have to be set ..
cheers in advance for any help u can give ...
[940 byte] By [
gambol991] at [2007-11-26 9:53:46]
# 1
Hello,
is it anything to do with input-device/output-device ?
maybe the input-device and output-device are set to rsc instead of ttya or keyboard / screen.
Setting both to rsc is preferred ! It allows to control the system from the RSC (power-up, power-down, capture a console protocoll, etc.). You can either use a serial or dedicated network connection with the RSC.
Have you tried to attach to the serial-port of the RSC board ?
Michael
# 2
Yeah ... the was my first thought ... I tried connecting to both the rsc rj45 and serial ports ... each with the same settings as detailed above ... Still nothing came up on the screen ... I also tried the procedure on two other servers, just to make sure it was nothing to do with the card ... Neither of those's work either ... Hence it must be something i'm doign wrong ...
I did see, while on a google, that plugging in the keyboard in the past, automatically redirects input to the keyoboard .. a STOP-F sending it back to ttya ... clutching at straws .. i'm gonna try that .. and cross my fingers .. :) ..
# 3
Didn't work!! ... Ok ... here's what i want to do ... I all need is reboot, or drop down to init 0 .. so i can attached a external SCSI (dat drive) to the system .. But i'm reducant to reboot before i have console access to the system ...
I suppose i could use a init 5 ... attach the lead .. and since ssh will come back up ... log in from there ...
any suggestions?
# 4
Hello,
init 5 does power-down !
The E250 has 2 independent SCSI channels, the internal devices (disks, CD-ROM, tape) are on the first channel and the external connector is the second channel.
You can attach the external device (DAT) without shutdown and use tapes (Solaris < 8) or devfsadm -c tape (Solaris 8 and later) to add the devlinks for the DAT.
Check with eeprom the current OBP settings (or eeprom auto-boot? a single-setting).
Michael
# 5
I checked eeprom settings ..
input-device=keyboard
output-device=screen
ttyb-rts-dtr-off=false
ttyb-ignore-cd=true
ttya-rts-dtr-off=false
ttya-ignore-cd=true
ttyb-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
ttya-mode=9600,8,n,1,-
auto-boot?=true
auto-boot-on-error?=false
So a #reboot should bypass the ok> and boot directly into solaris ... assuming no errors ... hmmm *rolling eyes* .. perhaps a # eeprom "auto-boot-on-error?=true" would be a good idea ...
# 6
What adapters are you using?
If you are using a Sun DB9 adapter on your hyperterm box to a straight RJ45, that would work fine. But if you are adding a Sun DB25 adapter to the end of the RJ45 to connect to the E250 that will NOT work.
The Sun adapters are NULL. If you use 2 of them, you make your serial RS232 connection a staight and it will not work.
Never assume the the connectors you are using are right unless you have tested or have built them yourself. Check your pin-outs.
Does RXD goto TXD, etc.?
Sun4u at 2007-7-7 1:11:10 >
