From: Wyatt Song (wyatt.song@veritas.com)
Date: Tue Feb 17 2004 - 05:07:19 EST
Thanks everyone for input especially to:
Adrian Phipps
James Gallagher
SteinAxt
Solution:
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We managed to locate a terminal and connected through serial port to be able
to input anything, then ran set-defaults to get the original keyboard back.
Comments:
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This type of SparcBook only takes one input device and as the only
input-device got corrupted we were unable to key anything at all (including
STOP-N etc) with either USB keyboard or its own keyboard. The only way out
was to serial in and set-defaults.
-----Original Message-----
From: Wyatt Song [mailto:wyatt.song@veritas.com]
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 11:05 AM
To: sunmanagers@sunmanagers.org
Cc: Ray Schafer
Subject: OpenBoot Reset
Hi Sun Managers,
Please help my colleague who's not on the alias with an urgent
situation. I have forwarded his email below describing the situation
he's in. If you have any suggestions and/or questions could you
please also copy Ray rschafer@veritas.com
<mailto:rschafer@veritas.com> so he can ask you questions.
Help is needed urgently as we try to set up a training class for
tomorrow, without getting his SparcBook we're unable to do so - in the
meantime Tedpole support phone is down.
Thanks for help, will summarize.
Wyatt
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Schafer
Sent: Tuesday, 17 February 2004 7:48 PM
To: Wyatt Song
Subject: RE: This is the alias
Thanks Wyatt.
Here is the problem description:
I have a SparcBook5000 from Tadpole technologies. In the OpenBoot
prompt, I tried to set the input-device back to the native keyboard
instead of the USB keyboard I was using, but the device was truncated
to 32 characters and is not a valid device. I don't have an OS
installed, I am trying to do that. I wish to find out how to reset the
nvram to the default settings if possible or at least be able to set
the input device back to something I can use to install the machine.
Please help!
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