7-6 Sun Blade 1500 Service, Diagnostics, and Troubleshooting Manual • December 2004
7.2.5 Run POST
1. Attach the crossover cable to the system being tested and then to the serial
terminal or second system.
2. If you are using a second system, start the TIP connection. Type:
3. Press the return key a couple of times to synchronize the handshaking between
the two systems.
You should see the ok prompt.
4. Type the post command.
For example:
POST is run. See “POST Output” on page 7-6 for examples of POST output.
Note – POST execution can be aborted by pressing the Ctrl-X keys of the serial
terminal or second system. POST then returns control to the OpenBoot PROM.
7.3 POST Output
The contents of the POST output depends on the values of the diagnostic level and
output verbosity. For the examples in this section, the Sun Blade 1500 workstation
was configured with two 512 MB DIMMs.
Note – The 0> that precedes the output text is the CPU identifier and indicates the
output is from POST. If you do not see these characters, the output is from the
OpenBoot PROM.
# tip hardwire
ok post min max
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