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Date:      Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:43:05 +0000 (GMT)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Jim King <jim.king@mail.sstar.com>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: AlphaStation 200 doesn't boot?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.01.9810291040520.366-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199810290530.XAA05496@oasis.zycor.lgc.com>

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On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jim King wrote:

> After all the messages below there's no further output.  This box doesn't
> have a video card - is there a boot flag I need to tell the kernel to use
> the serial console, or something?

There is a problem with the syscons probe when a machine doesn't actually
have a video card.  At the moment, you will need a kernel which has the
syscons driver removed.  This is on my list of things to fix but if
someone beats me to it, I won't complain :-)

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Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 951 1891
					Fax:   +44 181 381 1039


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