[rescue] SPARCstation 1 boot woes

[David McMackins II]

Resurrecting this thread as I've done just a bit more looking today. I
remembered that the OBP has diagnostics to run, so I tried that and
found that all tests passed (except ones I expected to fail like the
keyboard and network which weren't connected at the time).

I'm beginning to wonder if this system actually is fine and all my woes
are on the software side. My trouble is I don't have a known good SunOS
boot diskette, so I can't tell if I'm doing anything wrong when making
one.

Does anyone have a good source of info for creating a boot diskette
from Linux? I would also accept instructions for setting up SunOS
netboot if there were also directions for acquiring the necessary
files.

-- 
Regards,

David E. McMackins II
www.mcmackins.org

On Wed, 2025-06-04 at 08:48 -0500, David McMackins II wrote:
> Update: the flicker of video signal got me thinking that maybe there
> was some sort of issue initializing the video card, so I tried
> removing
> it. This granted some progress: the 1.0 ROM now prints the machine
> info
> header over the serial line (which it was not doing before). However,
> after a couple of seconds, I see "Testi" before the system becomes
> unresponsive.
> 
> I thought this might be a RAM issue, so I tried swapping out some
> SIMMs
> to no avail. For science I also tried reinstalling the 2.9 ROM in
> case
> that too was having issues with the video card, but it behaved the
> same
> as before.