From owner-freebsd-current Tue Nov 21 13: 0: 6 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 821) id 6735437B4CF; Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:59:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 12:59:56 -0800 From: "John W. De Boskey" To: Current List Subject: No console on AlphaServer 2000 4/233 4.2-RC2 Message-ID: <20001121125955.A76196@FreeBSD.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Console, console, where's the console? We are attempting to use FreeBSD 4.2-RC2 on an AlphaServer 2000 4/233 and are running into trouble with the console device. When we boot from the CD, it comes up to the boot prompt on the console where we tell it to boot from the cd device. The cd then boots up to the following: /stand/sysinstall running as init on serial console These are the predefined terminal types available to sysinstall when running stand-alone. Please choose the closest match for your particular terminal. 1 ...................... Standard ANSI terminal. 2 ...................... VT100 or compatible terminal. 3 ...................... FreeBSD system console (color) 4 ...................... FreeBSD system console (monochrome) 5 ...................... xterm terminal emulator Your choice: (1-5) At this point, no keyboard input is accepted. We then successfully installed onto an AlphaServer 1000 and moved the disks to the 2000. At this point the console is still useless, but we can telnet into the machine and use it... I've included the dmesg output below. Note, on the console after boot, but right before the useless login prompt: Cannot open /dev/ttyv0: not such device or address and from ls: %ls -al /dev/ttyv0 crw------- 1 root wheel 12, 0 Nov 21 10:02 /dev/ttyv0 So, it seems getty can't open the virtual terminal devices. A ps -aux right after boot: PID PPID UID %CPU %MEM STAT TIME COMMAND 0 0 0 0.0 0.0 DLs 0:00.00 (swapper) 1 0 0 0.0 0.2 ILs 0:00.03 (init) 2 0 0 0.0 0.0 DL 0:00.00 (pagedaemon) 3 0 0 0.0 0.0 DL 0:00.00 (vmdaemon) 4 0 0 0.0 0.0 DL 0:00.00 (bufdaemon) 5 0 0 0.0 0.0 DL 0:00.07 (syncer) 83 1 0 0.0 0.4 Ss 0:00.57 syslogd -s 86 1 1 0.0 0.3 Is 0:00.01 /usr/sbin/portmap 102 1 0 0.0 0.5 Is 0:00.13 inetd -wW 104 1 0 0.0 0.5 Is 0:00.04 cron 107 1 0 0.0 0.8 Is 0:00.05 sendmail: accepting connections (sen 111 1 0 0.0 0.8 Is 0:05.88 /usr/sbin/sshd 141 102 0 0.0 0.9 Ss 0:00.37 telnetd 142 141 896 0.0 0.3 Is 0:00.23 -ksh (ksh) 159 142 0 0.0 0.3 S 0:00.26 -su (ksh) 206 159 0 0.0 0.2 R+ 0:00.00 /bin/ps -axo pid aux 140 1 0 0.0 0.4 Is+ 0:00.05 /usr/libexec/getty Pc console and dmesg: (Yes, the 1st 2 lines are from dmesg, and I cannot find where they are coming from yet). Unrecognized boot flag '0'. Unrecognized boot flag ','. Copyright (c) 1992-2000 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 4.2-RC1 #0: Thu Nov 16 06:10:10 EST 2000 root@apdrb.vms.sas.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/ALPHADOG DEC AlphaServer 2100 AlphaServer 2000 4/233, 233MHz 8192 byte page size, 1 processor. CPU: EV45 (21064A) major=6 minor=2 OSF PAL rev: 0x4000c0002012d real memory = 266264576 (260024K bytes) avail memory = 254279680 (248320K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xfffffc00005f8000. md0: Malloc disk pci0: on pcib0 sym0: <810> port 0x10000-0x100ff mem 0x81080000-0x810800ff irq 33 at device 1.0 on pci0 sym0: No NVRAM, ID 7, Fast-10, SE, parity checking sym0: interrupting at T2 irq 33 isab0: at device 2.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 pci0: (vendor=0x1011, dev=0x0004) at 6.0 irq 32 de0: port 0x10100-0x1017f mem 0x81080100-0x8108017f irq 36 at device 7.0 on pci0 de0: interrupting at T2 irq 36 de0: DEC DE500-BA 21143 [10-100Mb/s] pass 3.0 de0: address 00:00:f8:07:3a:b7 pci0: (vendor=0x10d5, dev=0x0002) at 8.0 irq 37 pci0: (vendor=0x4f24, dev=0x1721) at 12.0 irq 33 pci0: (vendor=0x0100, dev=0x0100) at 12.4 irq 65 pci0: (vendor=0x4f24, dev=0x1721) at 13.0 irq 33 pci0: (vendor=0x0100, dev=0x0100) at 13.4 irq 65 fdc0: at port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0 fdc0: interrupting at T2 irq 6 fdc0: FIFO enabled, 8 bytes threshold fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0 atkbdc0: at port 0x60,0x64 on isa0 atkbd0: irq 1 on atkbdc0 atkbd0: interrupting at T2 irq 1 psm0: irq 12 on atkbdc0 psm0: interrupting at T2 irq 12 psm0: model Generic PS/2 mouse, device ID 0 mcclock0: at port 0x70-0x71 on isa0 sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0 sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 on isa0 sio0: type 16550A sio0: interrupting at T2 irq 4 sio1: reserved for low-level i/o ppc0: at port 0x3bc-0x3c3 irq 7 on isa0 ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode ppi0: on ppbus0 lpt0: on ppbus0 lpt0: Polled port ppc0: interrupting at T2 irq 7 Timecounter "alpha" frequency 233332635 Hz Waiting 2 seconds for SCSI devices to settle da0 at sym0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da0: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled da0: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C) da1 at sym0 bus 0 target 1 lun 0 da1: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da1: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled da1: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C) da2 at sym0 bus 0 target 2 lun 0 da2: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device da2: 10.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8), Tagged Queueing Enabled da2: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C) Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a WARNING: / was not properly dismounted de0: enabling 10baseT port cd0 at sym0 bus 0 target 6 lun 0 cd0: Removable CD-ROM SCSI-2 device cd0: 4.237MB/s transfers (4.237MHz, offset 8) cd0: Attempt to query device size failed: NOT READY, Medium not present Thanks! 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