Hello All,
maybe somebody can help. I’m very new to Cobalt units and honestly speaking, to Linux too. At eBay I bought a VelociRaptor 1100 (unfortunately without the Management Console CDROM) and unable to get out of this box something useful. The last I was told, is that the box has been reset to “factory defaults”. But it looks like there is a part of the boot sequence removed.
First I’m unable to get the serial console to work – the automatic baudrate recognition sees nothing, the only output I’m getting is when setting the configuration to 9600-8-N-1, but the result is not human readable (only some fancy characters).
Other combinations don’t bring any result at all – could somebody tell me, what the factory default setting should be? The “Implementation Guide” at
http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/notes/manuals/sym_velociraptor/sym_vr_15_other_models/vr15_implementation.pdf.html says 155.200 bps – but this combination does not work.
What combination between “S” – “configure boot disk” and “loading from ...” should be used by default? The longest sequence (“Starting System” -> “Loading Kernel” -> “Booting” -> “Symantec Corporation” -> “Symantec Gateway Starting”) I’m getting when using “hda1” and “disk”. But thereafter nothing happens – I’m unable to reach a menu with the buttons, neither something else. All other combination don’t make more sense –sometimes the system hangs with “Loading Kernel”, other combinations create an endless “Starting System” -> “Loading Kernel” sequence.
A CMOS restore with “E” doesn’t help – I’m still unable reach something useful.
The ROM is unchanged – does it make any sense to put the drive out of the unit and give them a new image, so that I could at least boot a system, flash the ROM with ext3 and try to install the RaqCop Distribution? I tried to google to find something useful, but fizzled out. Any recommendations would be highly welcome – I’m lost in space.
When trying different boot scenarios the network interfaces are always silent, there is nothing sent out. When trying to “boot from network“ I can see the boot broadcast requests (sent to 255.255.255.255 port 67) – but unable to offer something useful to the appliance. Does somebody know where to find a boot image for a Symantec VelociRaptor, Restore CDROM or something else, which could help?
And one last question – is there any other chance to reset the appliance, except the “E” when power on?
Sorry for the long post and thank you in advance, Rainulf.
