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Date:      Sat, 7 Nov 1998 12:58:22 -0800 (PST)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: alphaPC164 boot messages 
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.02.9811071256520.7469-100000@feral-gw>
In-Reply-To: <199811072048.MAA06157@dingo.cdrom.com>

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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
> > <<HANGS HERE>>
> 
> 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.... :-)




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