From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Nov 7 12:58:59 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA09441 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:58:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from feral-gw.feral.com (feral.com [192.67.166.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA09432 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:58:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mjacob@feral.com) Received: from localhost (mjacob@localhost) by feral-gw.feral.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA07911; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:58:22 -0800 Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:58:22 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Jacob X-Sender: mjacob@feral-gw Reply-To: mjacob@feral.com To: Mike Smith cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: alphaPC164 boot messages In-Reply-To: <199811072048.MAA06157@dingo.cdrom.com> 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 Sat, 7 Nov 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > > > > > 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? Yes, I was trying to do an install. > > 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? Yes. See other mail. Got to an install screen... > > > 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.) Probably not all signals. The only other operating system that *requires* full flow control for serial consoles is AIX. I'm sure FreeBSD doesn't want *that* association.... :-) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message