From owner-freebsd-alpha Tue Apr 9 6:24:17 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5F0B337B439 for ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 06:23:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA23292; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:23:41 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g39DNBn29036; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:23:11 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15538.60223.515581.842033@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 09:23:11 -0400 (EDT) To: "Craig Burgess" Cc: "alpha" Subject: Re: OT: SRM boot options on UW 533au/as 1200 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Make sure the video board is connected to the correct hose (eg, in a PCI slot on hose 0). Craig Burgess writes: > Strictly speaking, this is not a FreeBSD question because there's > no OS on the machine. Also strictly speaking it is an Ulitmate > Workstation which, according to everything i can find, is "nearly > identical" to the AS1200. > > At boot the only thing that I can get to happen is the little LCD > window shows that it's testing CPUs and finally that CONSOLE is > STARTED. There is **no** indication that the keyboard is polled and > there is no response to attempted keyboard input. Nothing at all > shows up on a monitor -- there appears to be no video signal. I > swapped video cards and keyboards to no effect. Is is possible that > the SRM has been set to boot serial terminal mode? If so, is there > a way to restore default or whatever it would take to use > keyboard/monitor? (Alternatively, if it can be done in terminal > mode, how does one install FreeBSD? What sort of cable gets used > connected to what? I am really ignorant here.) From http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.5R/hardware-alpha.html: If you want to run your Alpha machine without a monitor/graphics card just don't connect a keyboard/mouse to the machine. Instead hook up a serial terminal[emulator] to serial port #1. The SRM will talk 9600N81 to you. This can also be really practical for debugging purposes. Beware: some/most (?) SRMs will also present you with a console prompt at serial port #2. The booting kernel, however, will display the boot messages on serial port #1 and will also put the console there. This can be extremely confusing. Basically, you want to get a null modem cable & hook it to another unix machine. Then run kermit or tip. (something like "tip com1" if your remote host is a FreeBSD host & the null modem cable is connected to com1 on it). When you power on the alpha, you should see it send output to the serial port. Drew To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message