From owner-freebsd-alpha Wed Oct 16 0:28:13 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6265437B401 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (osh202-181.broadacre.com [66.54.202.181]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C578343E8A for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 00:28:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from view.scoundrelz.net (localhost.scoundrelz.net [127.0.0.1]) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with ESMTP id g9G7RpLL073552; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:27:51 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from hemi@scoundrelz.net) Received: from localhost (hemi@localhost) by view.scoundrelz.net (8.12.3/8.12.3/Submit) with ESMTP id g9G7Rnpm073549; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:27:50 -0500 (CDT) X-Authentication-Warning: view.scoundrelz.net: hemi owned process doing -bs Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 02:27:49 -0500 (CDT) From: Josh Tolbert To: Greg Lewis Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PC164 SRM firmware problem In-Reply-To: <20021016024614.A1004@misty.eyesbeyond.com> Message-ID: <20021016021238.S73206-100000@view.scoundrelz.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi guys, I *finally* managed to get a serial console to work. For some odd reason my ThinkPad 600 refused to work, but my trusty dual PII/400 FreeBSD box never fails... Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Semiconductor A Digital Equipment Corporation business September 1996 Boot menu: Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter. 1. Boot Windows NT Server Version 4.00 2. Boot an alternate operating system... 3. Run a program... 4. Supplementary menu... Enter your selection: 4 Alpha Firmware Version 4.49-7 Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Microsoft Corporation Copyright (c) 1993-1996 Digital Equipment Corporation Digital Semiconductor A Digital Equipment Corporation business September 1996 Supplementary menu: Use the arrow keys to select, then press Enter. 1. Install new firmware... 2. Install Windows NT from CD-ROM 3. Set up the system... 4. Display hardware configuration 5. Boot menu... Enter your selection: 1 Searching for the update tool on CD-ROM and floppy... Timeout on keyboard controller or keyboard initialization. All I/O is going to serial port #1. Initializing firmware update. ...........DSDN No mouse detected. Initializing device drivers: ATAPI ...OK. Initializing Flash Driver: Intel 28F008SA Firmware Update menu: Firmware Update menu: 1. Update Firmware 3. Restart the system N - Next menu (if any)... P - Previous menu (if any)... Enter your selection: 1 Locating Image: multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom Loading multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom...done Checking Image...OK Really update flash with 'multi()disk()fdisk()\pc164srm.rom'? 1. Yes 2. No Enter your selection: 1 Flashing image at offset 0x10000 Writing Flash Block: 1W 2W 3W 4W 5W 6W 7W 8W 9W Verifying Flash Block: 1V 2V 3V 4V 5V 6V 7V 8V 9V Console selection does not match flashed image. Console selection: Windows NT New Firmware: OpenVMSUpdate console sele? 1. Yes 2. No Enter your selection: 1 Console selection set to OpenVMS Flash Update Complete. Press any key to continue... Firmware Update menu: Firmware Update menu: 1. Update Firmware 3. Restart the system N - Next menu (if any)... P - Previous menu (if any)... Enter your selection: 3 Restarting the system Image found at 10000 Image base in flash is 80300000 Jumping to new image at 300000... Address = 00300000 Memory Size = 08000000 Clock Cycle Period = 000007d0 System Revision = decb0001 Active Processors = 00000001 System Context Value = 00000000 *** keyboard not plugged in... ff.fe.fd.fc.fb.fa.f9.f8.f7.f6.f5.f3.f2.f1.f0. ef.b0.b1.b2.b3.ee.ed.ec.f4.eb.ea.e9.e8.e7. Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz Console V5.5-1, Jul 14 1999 12:37:45 >>>set console graphics >>>init It worked! >>>show config Digital AlphaPC 164 500 MHz SRM Console: V5.5-1 PALcode: OpenVMS PALcode V1.21-9, Digital UNIX PALcode V1.23-8 SROM Revision: UNKNOWN Alpha 21164A-2 DECchip (tm) 21172 CIA ASIC Pass 3 Thank you guys for being patient with me. :) Now, does anyone know where I can find cheap RAM for this thing? 128M will do for now, but I'm going to want more. Thanks, Josh On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Greg Lewis wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 11:58:10AM -0500, Josh Tolbert wrote: > > Hi Bernd, > > I haven't successfully made a serial connection to the Alpha. I'm > > going to continue working with the Alpha tonight, and now I have the > > settings that Wilko provided, but I'm not familiar with serial consoles at > > all. I guess I'm going to use Kermit, but I'm not sure if I need to make > > Kermit "listen" or "connect" or other things of the sort. > > I've successfully used minicom to do this. My minicom setup (assuming the > first serial port looks like this: > > # cat /usr/local/etc/minicom/minirc.cuaa0 > # Machine-generated file - use "minicom -s" to change parameters. > pr port /dev/cuaa0 > pu baudrate 9600 > pu bits 8 > pu parity N > pu stopbits 1 > > Minicom is in ports (comms/minicom). > > -- > Greg Lewis Email : glewis@eyesbeyond.com > Eyes Beyond Web : http://www.eyesbeyond.com > Information Technology FreeBSD : glewis@FreeBSD.org > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message