Nekonomicon - Got a pair of Sunfire V210 machines. Can't pull a display.

MisterDNA
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Wrote the following at June 13, 2010, 7:48 p.m...

Do these machines start up in a console-only mode or something like that? They each have an ATI Radeon PCI card inside, but I get nothing on it.

Each machine has a 1GHz USIIIi, 1GB RAM and a 36GB HDD.

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Wrote the following at June 14, 2010, 12:52 a.m...

Even if they included the video cards, they may be configured to use a serial console, or to be run through the Lights Out Management (LOM) subsystem.More likely the latter I'd suspect, but I don't have one and haven't administered one.

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Wrote the following at June 14, 2010, 3:15 a.m...

The V120 can be managed from ethernet (ALOM) or via serial cable if this configuration is enabled. There is more information in the Administration Guide .

Once you get access to ALOM, you have to redirect the console to the graphics card:

1. With the server in standby mode: sc> bootmode forth
2. sc> poweron
3. When the ok prompt appears: setenv output-device screen:r1280x1024x60
4. the last part is reboot the server, from the ok prompt: reset

Be carefully this is what I did in a V120 and maybe there is something that must be different.

edit: One more thing, In a V120 setenv output-device ttya sets the console to the serial port but I don't know how to redirect to the ethernet ALOM.

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Wrote the following at June 14, 2010, 5:22 a.m...

Titox wrote:

The V120 can be managed from ethernet (ALOM) or via serial cable if this configuration is enabled. There is more information in the Administration Guide .

Once you get access to ALOM, you have to redirect the console to the graphics card:

1. With the server in standby mode: sc> bootmode forth
2. sc> poweron
3. When the ok prompt appears: setenv output-device screen:r1280x1024x60
4. the last part is reboot the server, from the ok prompt: reset

Be carefully this is what I did in a V120 and maybe there is something that must be different.

edit: One more thing, In a V120 setenv output-device ttya sets the console to the serial port but I don't know how to redirect to the ethernet ALOM.

Don't confuse the 210 with the 120. The 210s have the ALOMS you mentioned, the 120s have LOMs (pre ALOM).

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Titox
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Wrote the following at June 14, 2010, 9:28 a.m...

zmttoxics wrote:

Don't confuse the 210 with the 120. The 210s have the ALOMS you mentioned, the 120s have LOMs (pre ALOM).

Ups

Sorry. Where I said The V120 can be managed from... must be The V210 can be managed from...

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Wrote the following at June 27, 2010, 11:26 a.m...

It's pretty easy to make a serial cable for connecting to the console. Just cut the end off an old ethernet cable and solder on the appropriate DB connector (DB-9 for a PC, DB-25 if you happen to have another Sun).

Once you're into the serial console, you can set up the video card as output.

A couple things to note:

1) Assuming you have the XVR-100, it takes custom firmware to get console out on DVI.
2) You can't get console out on the monitor unless you connect a keyboard and mouse.
3) You get different behavior from the machine if you use a Sun Type 6 keyboard/mouse a generic USB stuff.
4) If you want to WANboot (like for installing OpenSolaris), you may need to upgrade your OBP version.