[Techtalk] booting sun

[Maria Pinjanainen]

Lainaus Colleen Hatfield <evilpig at gmail.com>:

> On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 11:06:03 +0300, Maria Pinjanainen
> <maria.pinjanainen at abo.fi> wrote:
>  
> > Hi!
> > I´ll need to install Debian (Sarge) into Sun10 (ultra) computer. I
> can
> > not find howto get it boot with cdrom. I can not find hot to go
> into bios.
> 
> Hi Maria,
> 
> If you have a sun keyboard attached to it, put the install disc in
> the
> drive and turn it on.  As it's starting up, the screen will show the
> OpenBoot version, the MAC address, serial number, etc, then will say
> it's initializing memory.  At any point around this time you can
> drop
> into OpenBoot (the rough equivalent to an x86 BIOS) by holding down
> the "Stop" key on the keyboard while you press the "A" key (so "Stop
> +
> A").  This sends the break signal and should give you a prompt that
> looks like "ok ".  At this prompt, type "boot cdrom".  As long as
> there's a device alias in OpenBoot for your cdrom drive, this should
> work.
> 
> If you have a standard PC keyboard hooked to it instead of a Sun
> keyboard, "Ctrl+Break" usually works to send the break signal.
> 
> I you are talking to the Ultra 10 via serial console from another
> machine (instead of having a keyboard and monitor directly hooked to
> it), the procedure is similar, but you'll have to figure out how to
> send the break signal with your terminal program.  In minicom it's
> "Ctrl+A,Z" to get into the minicom menu, then "F" to send break.
> 
> Hope that helps,
> 
> - Colleen

Yes, that helps and I managed to install it. It is type5 Ultra10. Mouse
in connected there.
I need to learn howto work with Silo and the configs.

The most biggest problem is now that I can not get X working with the
keyboard. It is ok with console, but not in X (Gnome and Wmaker). 

-m.