From owner-freebsd-alpha Sat Jun 19 20:44:28 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from callisto.fortean.com (callisto.fortean.com [209.42.229.241]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3095514CE5 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:44:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) Received: from localhost (walter@localhost) by callisto.fortean.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA02065; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:44:12 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from walter@fortean.com) X-Authentication-Warning: callisto.fortean.com: walter owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 23:44:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Bruce Walter To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Cc: alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Anyone up for an exorcism? In-Reply-To: <69522.929850031@zippy.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 > > 1) Sliding the jumper over to failsafe mode and inserting an SRM complient > > boot block diskette with the firmware update utility. This actually > > loads, displays the BIOS emulation message, then sits at the blue > > SRM/ARC screen with no output. Happens with both the SRM and the ARC > > You sure it's not just waiting for your interaction on the serial port? :-) That was my first thought... I went through every serial cable here, and connected it to terminal software on several different machines. Null-modem cables, full-handshake, yadda yadda yadda. Nothing was coming out of those ports. I did find a webpage which states the pinout diagram on the Design Guide was wrong, so I even made a cable assuming the pinouts were right. (Heavy Sigh) Other than that, the board has run (blech) linux flawlessly. - Bruce ______________________ Bruce M. Walter, Principal NIXdesign Group Inc. 426 S. Dawson Street Raleigh NC 27601 USA 919.829.4901 Tel (ext 11) 919.829.4993 Fax http://www.nixdesign.com Visual communications | concept + code To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message