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I installed Solaris 9 on a Sun Fire V100 (I connected to the box from
a Windows laptop running HyperTerminal as described in the box's
documentation)... The installation went perfectly, and when I was
done, I logged into the box (from HyperTerminal), poked around a bit
to make sure that everything was OK, then logged out (by typing
"exit")...

At this point, I was at the OS's login prompt. I then shut down
HyperTerminal, and without ever disconnecting the laptop from the LOM
port, I immediately fired HyperTerminal back up, at which point I got
an "ok" prompt.

I haven't been able to find any information about getting from the ok
prompt back to the OS's login prompt. Here's what I've found so far:

- I spoke to a Solaris administrator who said that if I'm getting the
ok prompt, the machine is not in a "booted" state.
- I found some information on the mailing list archives that I've
looked through so far regarding the fact that the machine might be in
suspend mode. A couple of things with regard to this:
    - During the installation process, I was never asked whether or
not I wanted to enable suspend mode on the machine if it was not used
for 30 minutes. Is this bad? Should I have seen this?
    - I closed HyperTerminal and started it back up immediately, so
unless the box detected that the terminal session had ended and
immediately put itself in suspend mode, suspend mode cannot be the
cause of the problem.
- I found information about getting back to the OS prompt from the lom
prompt (by typing "console"). Is there an ok prompt equivalent? The
administrator I talked to suggested trying "go". However, this still
sounded like a way of coming out of suspend mode.

I haven't found anything that sounds like the right answer in the
box's documentation... Any help, suggestions, pointers to the
appropriate information would be greatly appreciated...

Cheers...

Dave Bruzzone

Have you tried using another console app to connect? I find hyper term a bit
flakey, and yep typing "go" is perfectly normal :)

HTH,
Matt

Quote:> Greetings all...

> I installed Solaris 9 on a Sun Fire V100 (I connected to the box from
> a Windows laptop running HyperTerminal as described in the box's
> documentation)... The installation went perfectly, and when I was
> done, I logged into the box (from HyperTerminal), poked around a bit
> to make sure that everything was OK, then logged out (by typing
> "exit")...

> At this point, I was at the OS's login prompt. I then shut down
> HyperTerminal, and without ever disconnecting the laptop from the LOM
> port, I immediately fired HyperTerminal back up, at which point I got
> an "ok" prompt.

> I haven't been able to find any information about getting from the ok
> prompt back to the OS's login prompt. Here's what I've found so far:

> - I spoke to a Solaris administrator who said that if I'm getting the
> ok prompt, the machine is not in a "booted" state.
> - I found some information on the mailing list archives that I've
> looked through so far regarding the fact that the machine might be in
> suspend mode. A couple of things with regard to this:
>     - During the installation process, I was never asked whether or
> not I wanted to enable suspend mode on the machine if it was not used
> for 30 minutes. Is this bad? Should I have seen this?
>     - I closed HyperTerminal and started it back up immediately, so
> unless the box detected that the terminal session had ended and
> immediately put itself in suspend mode, suspend mode cannot be the
> cause of the problem.
> - I found information about getting back to the OS prompt from the lom
> prompt (by typing "console"). Is there an ok prompt equivalent? The
> administrator I talked to suggested trying "go". However, this still
> sounded like a way of coming out of suspend mode.

> I haven't found anything that sounds like the right answer in the
> box's documentation... Any help, suggestions, pointers to the
> appropriate information would be greatly appreciated...

> Cheers...

> Dave Bruzzone

This appears to be the case... If I type "go" at the ok prompt, I get
the login prompt (which I can't see, but if I type a username in and
hit Enter, I get a "password:" prompt).

So, does anyone have any suggestions regarding:

a) A Windows terminal application that won't send a break when it is
shut down
b) A way to configure the box so that I can telnet into the LOM/ok
prompt (Last night I found some information about configuring the LOM
network parameters - by using the "setupnetwork" command. I haven't
tried this yet, but it sounds like the right direction in which to
head).
Last night, I did try to telnet to the box while I was logged into the
OS via the serial connection, and was unable to do this (It looked
like I was disconnected by the telnet daemon for some reason). I'll
have to spend some more time trying to figure out why this happened.

Cheers...

Dave Bruzzone

Scott.

Try the one described in Infodoc 21258 on http://sunsolve.sun.com/

  -Greg
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Thanks again...

Dave Bruzzone

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