From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Jun 29 14:52: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0482714E3A for ; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 14:52:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from localhost (dfr@localhost) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA49447; Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:55:24 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 22:55:23 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: John Howie Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing on AlphaStation 400 4/233 In-Reply-To: <005101bec246$64888380$fe01a8c0@pacbell.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, 29 Jun 1999, John Howie wrote: > Folks, > > I have a AlphaStation 400 4/233. I upgraded the SRM to v7 (from DEC's > Web-site) and tried to install FreeBSD 3.2 Stable using kern.flp and > mfsroot.flp from the FTP site. Everything seems to load fine but I > cannot select my console type (I am given four options). It appears > (if I read the kernel startup configuration information correctly) > that the kernel is trying to use a serial console for the keyboard. I > did (once) receive an error about my PCXAL keyboard and scan code > (0x83, I believe) shortly after the menu was presented to me. The > keyboard works fine in the system boot menus, the boot process (I can > interrupt the autoboot and query the console value, which is set to > prom) and when running Windows NT. > > Trying to be smart, I hooked up a laptop running term emulation to the > serial port and while I was able to start the boot process from that, > once FreeBSD started it required me to use the console keyboard > instead (all output is sent to the console screen as well, and not to > the serial port). When I get back to the menu with the four console > options the keyboard is unresponsive and the term emulator does not > appear to work. > > Help! To set the default console to serial, type >>>set console serial at the SRM prompt. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message