[Suns-at-Home] Netra X1 Solaris Headaches

[Mr Eric Rudolph Pizzani]

Hey All,

I'm just sending this, summarizing what I've learnt in the last 2  
weeks with the Netra X1, for the benefit of everyone here.

Based on Andre's advice (to whom, I'm very grateful,)

to get an ok prompt for booting without using break (which tends to  
be nasty) is run the following (either after using break or switching  
to forth mode)

eeprom auto-boot? false
reset-all

the things you should try with a Netra, if it is giving you troubles  
is :

setenv diag-switch? true
setenv diag-level max
reset-all

as well as connecting up it's ethernet ports.

In my case, it turned out that the system board was... a little  
dodgy. The replacement machine I got sent had a fubar'd processor-  
which no matter what, without fail would report divide by zero errors.

swap the two, and hey presto- one completely screwed machine and one  
good machine.

hope this is useful for someone else. :-)

Smiles,
Eric.