Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 12:22:52 -0500 From: marrandy <marrandy@chaossolutions.org> To: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Fwd: RE: alphaserver 4100 stops om boot Message-ID: <200503061222.52440.marrandy@chaossolutions.org>
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---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Subject: RE: alphaserver 4100 stops om boot Date: Sunday 06 March 2005 11:27 From: "Matthew X. Economou" <xenophon@irtnog.org> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd- > alpha@freebsd.org] On Behalf Of marrandy > Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 11:22 AM > > OK - please explain to me how I can retrieve the information with > the exact description when it hasn't fully booted yet Thankfully, this isn't too difficult, but you will need a second computer and a null modem cable. On the Alpha, unplug the keyboard and plug the null modem cable into the first serial port. On the second computer, install your favorite terminal emulator (I like TeraTerm) and plug the other end of the null modem connector into a free serial port. Start the terminal emulator, enable logging, and start the Alpha. Eventually, the Alpha's firmware should realize that the graphical console isn't connected and switch automatically to the serial port. Save the log file, post it to a web site, and link to it here. Or, if it is brief (say, less than 20 lines), post the contents of the boot log directly. Best wishes, Matthew Thanks. I'll try and get that done Monday afternoon. Monday mornings is aways hell as we have to catch up after the weekend. Talk to you then. Regards...Martin
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