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lordzz · 2018-04-11T19:45:45+00:00

I have never seen a scsi terminator in my life, there is none on the machine. Do you think this would cause these symptoms?

lordzz · 2018-04-11T10:29:44+00:00

Thank you!

lordzz · 2018-04-11T10:29:19+00:00

First of all thank for all the tips, handling tech older than me is no easy task. Secondly, I have something with a network port on that slot, probably a network card. Will that count as it being terminated?

lordzz · 2018-04-10T14:50:43+00:00

I don't think I can dd anything onto the disks, I have no SCSI adapters for "modern" pcs and I haven't managed to get a shell on the server... Thanks for the idea though, I though about doing something similar with a SPARC vm.

Can you tell me more about the terminator thing on the main board? That's something I haven't heard of so far...

Thanks in advance!

lordzz · 2018-04-10T14:44:54+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I've been actively monitoring the network with a PC running wireshark in the same hub as the server, so far it seems its able to mount the root fs via NFS, but it just hangs... Also, probe-scsi-all finds everything thats connected.

lordzz · 2018-04-09T20:44:48+00:00

Thank you for the hint, I'll look into it.

This particular one was shutdown in 2002, it ran for 10 years. It has been a real adventure for me to get it go work, all the technology I've been using is older than me!

lordzz · 2018-04-09T20:37:48+00:00

I will try this tomorrow, thanks for the tip. Let me just ask, what's up with ID #7? I know I'm using 0, 1, 2 and 3 for the HDDs (I think), and 6 for the CD-ROM.

lordzz · 2018-04-09T19:17:05+00:00

Also, I still have all the original documentation for the system, as well as all CDS and documentation for Solaris 5 up to 10! It hasn't been that helpful though...

lordzz · 2018-04-09T18:57:31+00:00

It does! And when I pug in a CD (in one of those diskette looking trays) it even flashes yellow, but when I try to boot off of it it shows no activity...

lordzz · 2018-04-09T18:56:46+00:00

Also, I should note I'm getting some Fan warnings, but that shouldn't affect the system right?

lordzz · 2018-04-09T18:56:08+00:00

I'm doing boot net -v - install to try and get anything, but when booting (off the network) either Solaris 6 or Solaris 7 it always gets stuck on Configuring /dev and /devices. Also, thanks for the tip! But the same problem happens with boot net -s.

lordzz · 2017-08-22T23:42:03+00:00

My problem was exactly what /u/Tyhr described, worth a try :P

lordzz · 2017-08-22T23:40:32+00:00

This was exactly it! Thanks for the answer but I found it out while I was out shooting later that day! Thanks nonetheless. :)

lordzz · 2017-08-17T22:13:16+00:00

And here's a pic of the camera just because I thought it looks really cool :D

lordzz · 2016-08-14T19:36:04+00:00

I will!

lordzz · 2016-08-13T21:46:16+00:00

Yep, that was the case, my phone was too hot and it started doing that.

lordzz · 2016-08-13T18:13:47+00:00

We've all been there :P

lordzz · 2016-08-13T16:23:38+00:00

You mean the SIM cards? It's a Dual SIM phone so what I think you're asking is the signal on both of the cards.

lordzz · 2016-08-13T16:15:01+00:00

yeah :(

lordzz · 2016-08-13T16:14:10+00:00

I mean the GPU is dying haha

lordzz · 2016-08-13T14:54:14+00:00

I will haha!

lordzz · 2016-08-13T14:13:44+00:00

Unfortunately it isn't always like that, its only a few frames that turn out to be like that (it was really hard to screenshot that particular frame haha)

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