I can't even see the hardware messages at power-on; just garbage - on both systems, at every baud rate I've tried on the emulator. Nowhere near booting OS. On Jun 14, 2015 7:56 PM, "r.stricklin" <b...@typewritten.org> wrote:
> > On Jun 14, 2015, at 12:05 AM, Mike Ross wrote: > > > I'm trying to resurrect a couple of Sparcstation 10 systems. Is there > > anything 'funny' about the serial console settings on SS10 hardware? I > > thought they always defaulted to 9600-n-8-1, but I get voluminous > > gobbledygook at that, and at every other baud rate I've tried. > > The SunOS 4 (and earlier) terminal driver sets the high bit. If you can > see the OBP and some of the early kernel messages, then it switches to > junk, this is your problem. The simplest thing to do is set your terminal > emulator for "strip high bit". > > ok > bear. > > -- > until further notice > >
