Date: Sat, 03 Nov 2001 14:19:14 -0800 From: Patrick Mahan <mahan@cisco.com> To: "Hrvoje Husic" <husic@web.de> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall sticking to serial port Message-ID: <5.0.0.25.0.20011103141807.033604e0@pita.cisco.com> In-Reply-To: <200111032143.fA3Lhku17785@mailgate5.cinetic.de>
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At 10:43 PM 11/3/01 +0100, Hrvoje Husic spoke: >Hi Guys, > >I hope you can help me on this problem, or at least give me >a hint or two. (I sent this question to >questions@freebsd.org also, but I guess it's better placed >here) > >I'm trying to install FreeBSD-4.4/Alpha on an older >Multia-System. (booting from the 2 disk as the machine has >no cd-rom attached) The Multia has a monitor, keyboard and >mouse >attached to it, but after booting the kernel I get the >message "/stand/sysinstall running as init on serial >console" (or so) and a menu where i can select from 5 >different terminal-emulations. > >As I do not have a console cable I cannot use the console. >Is there a way, I can force sysinstall to use the graphical >console? -P or -h did not show any effect at all (-P was an >unknown option?) > >Any hints, what I have to do to get sysinstall fetching the >right console? Replace the graphics card with a standard VGA, the FreeBSD installation doesn't work with the TGA graphic cards in the Multia. I had the same problem with a AlphaStation 200. Patrick To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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