solaris 10 x86 serial console

I can't get access to the console via the serial port. I'm running solaris 10 on a v20z. I get the BIOS w/ out issue but once it starts to boot I get nothing.

I've made the necessary changes to /boot/solaris/bootenv.rc via eeprom...

eeprom input-device=ttya

eeprom output-device=ttya

tried using the console over the sp...

set console -s sp -e -S 9600

then tried the db9 port...

platform set console -s platform

None of this has worked. It's clearly something that's not configured at the OS level as this command at least generates a login prompt...

/usr/lib/saf/ttymon -g -d /dev/term/a

followed by...

Warning -- ttymon cannot allocate controlling tty on "/dev/term/a",

there may be another session active on this port.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[854 byte] By [diniscoa] at [2008-2-27]