I'm stuck on this and not sure where or what happened.

I've got an Ultra 80 that has been configured and working for some time. 
The other day, I turned it on to make a final configuration so that I could 
ship it to a friend and Nothing.. I could not talk to it via its network or 
serial console connection (its headless).

I finally put a monitor on it and all it does is turn on, issue the 
following and stop.  No boot messages, eprom stuff nada...

   Can't open input device.
   Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.

Even without a keyboard it should still boot, show the CPU etc...

but I get nothing after that.

Unit has a single 450MHz CPU, 1gb of ram.

Any clues on what to try?  The unit has been undisturbed in my office at 
home but offline for the past month or two.

I will bring home a keyboard in the morning, but don't have one available 
until then. 

Kevin wrote:
> I'm stuck on this and not sure where or what happened.
> 
> I've got an Ultra 80 that has been configured and working for some time. 
> The other day, I turned it on to make a final configuration so that I could 
> ship it to a friend and Nothing.. I could not talk to it via its network or 
> serial console connection (its headless).
> 
> I finally put a monitor on it and all it does is turn on, issue the 
> following and stop.  No boot messages, eprom stuff nada...
> 
>    Can't open input device.
>    Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
> 
> Even without a keyboard it should still boot, show the CPU etc...
> 
> but I get nothing after that.

If you get an ok> prompt, type "banner" and check that the
mac address is not 00:00:00:00:00:00 or ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff

also check that it still recognises your ram and cpu ;)


If that's all ok, try


ok> boot -vs


and see how far you get.


mcbofh

Kevin <news@tnet.com> wrote:
> I've got an Ultra 80 that has been configured and working for some time. 
> The other day, I turned it on to make a final configuration so that I could 
> ship it to a friend and Nothing.. I could not talk to it via its network or 
> serial console connection (its headless).
> 
> I finally put a monitor on it and all it does is turn on, issue the 
> following and stop.  No boot messages, eprom stuff nada...
> 
>   Can't open input device.
>   Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.
> 
> Even without a keyboard it should still boot, show the CPU etc...

No. Without a keyboard it should still boot, but send all output to the
serial port.

If you're getting that message on the monitor and nothing on the console,
then either the console port is broken, or your serial cable is...

  Scott

Kevin <news@tnet.com> wrote:
> I finally put a monitor on it and all it does is turn on, issue the 
> following and stop.  No boot messages, eprom stuff nada...

>    Can't open input device.
>    Keyboard not present.  Using ttya for input and output.

> Even without a keyboard it should still boot, show the CPU etc...

> but I get nothing after that.

True, but all of the display of that information will be on ttya (as
shown above).

Check for bad serial cable, wrong speed, wrong port (The *serial* port,
not the *parallel* port) etc.  It's also possible the serial port has
died, but that's pretty rare (seen twice in probably some thousands of
machines)

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