berry@stsci.EDU (Jim Berry) (04/22/89)
Hi. We finally managed to get a 4D (a 4server8) to use as an
rendering engine (modelling is done on a 3130). My problem is
that we didn't get a console with the machine (don't ask - political
reasons) and I'm not sure how to boot the machine with an ANSI
terminal. I noticed that the 16 binders of docs that we received
don't include anything like the "IRIS 3000 Series Manuals" binder
that came with the 3130, describing dip switch settings and pinouts
and the like. Am I missing a manual (or simply not seeing one that
is already here)?
Anyway, the short range issue is to figure out how to boot this
thing without a console, and any help would be greatly appreciated.
(Though I would like to know if there's a hardware manual.)
Thanks.
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I'm not sure what manual contains this info, but I'll give you all of the
info I can. I'm a little confused since the system should detect the absence
of a graphics console and default to the serial terminal. At any rate:
1. Attach your serial terminal to the 9 pin port marked "1" in the back.
Set your terminal to 9600 Baud, 8 bits, no parity.
2. Hit the reset button. If all is well, you'll start getting output from
the prom monitor. Depending on the version of the prom, you'll either
get a nice pretty menu. If so, type "1" for "Start System".
Otherwise, you'll get a ">>" prompt. In this case, type "auto".
Other details: The prom monitor, and eventually the system, looks at
an NVRAM environment variable to choose which console to boot up on.
If the "console" environment variable is "G" or "g", it will attempt to
use the graphics console. If the graphics keyboard is hooked to the
"KEYBD" port in the back, the graphics console will in fact be used.
Otherwise, it will switch back to the serial port. You will get a
"Cannot open graphics" message or something to that effect. If this message
is annoying, you can change the environment variable as follows:
1. If you get a menu upon reset, type "5" for "Enter Command Monitor"
to get the ">>" prompt. Otherwise you are already talking to
the command monitor.
2. Type "setenv console d" to boot the serial console automatically
in the future.
If you are not even getting up in the monitor, try plugging in to the second
9 pin serial port. It could be that the console environment variable was
accidentally set to "r" which means use this alternate port.
Jeff Doughty
UNIX group
jeffd@norge.sgi.com