From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 12:49:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA08620 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:49:18 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (castles356.castles.com [208.214.167.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA08614 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:49:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA06157; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:48:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199811072048.MAA06157@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: mjacob@feral.com cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alphaPC164 boot messages In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:15:36 PST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 07 Nov 1998 12:48:21 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > > Just in case someone more on top of the current state sees something > in all of this, here's where I get to on the AlphaPC164... The > prom input device is working at a pont because it passed along > the Enter I hit below... Er, this is the BOOTMFS kernel, ie. the installation kernel. Are you trying to do a new install, or booting from the harddisk? sc0 not found sio0 at 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio1: reserved for low-level i/o sio1 not found Ok, no video card, you're using the first serial port for the console, correct? > ootfs is 2880 Kbyte compiled in MFS > <> There should be an 'r' there too, but at this point sysinstall should have come up and asked you for your terminal type. Does your serial console cable have all the flow control signals correctly wired/ bypassed? (I'm not sure if we need this, but it might be a problem.) -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message