Date: Sun, 28 Nov 1999 22:14:00 -0800 (PST) From: Tom <bifrost@minions.com> To: manning@uclink4.berkeley.edu Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: boot install disk on multia Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9911282208180.3018-100000@frond.minions.com> In-Reply-To: <3841E675.3415CAEB@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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> I've had a couple problems with this install. First off, the SRM console > in general... my lowly monitor only goes up to 1024x768. I know SRM is > in 1280x1024 on the multia by default. I searched around and found a > site with jumper settings for changing the resolution. Unfortunatally, > while the resolution DOES change, it never seems to become anything my > monitor can handle. i tried setting it to 640x480, and it's still weird. I had a lot of problems with this while installing Net/OpenBSD on my multia, what helped was booting into the ARC, setting up stuff in there, then rebooting the box by blipping the power switch, this seemed to do something to keep the resolution in the right place. The boxes have a hard time remebering things between reboots :/ What kind of monitor do you have? I've used a couple different monitors, and had the best luck with rMedia and NEW Sun Multisync monitors. > This is all just a side note, because I CAN set up a serial console, > i just don't have the serial cable yet. Its a heck of a lot easier with the serial :) Its a nice lil dinky null-modem cable. > In any case, the main problem, is that booting the floppy (and yes, > i've written the image, and rewritten that, and it doesn't change at > all), it all seems to go fine for a while, and then just stops. ANY > ideas? As I said, I DID try redownloading the .flp's a few billion > times, tried a whole bunch of different disks, and it does the same > thing. The multias have terrible floppies, I ended up tossing the 2.88 .flp onto a SCSI Zip disk and booting off of that, *much* easier. Supposedly its a known thing that the multia floppy drives suck, and more importantly its the floppy cables that cause the problems because they're not well shielded enough. I haven't tried netbooting my multia yet, but that might be the easiest way of installing... To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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