From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Nov 3 23:33:57 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au (mta04.mail.au.uu.net [203.2.192.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 493F237B405 for ; Sat, 3 Nov 2001 23:33:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au ([203.166.66.104]) by mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au with ESMTP id <20011104073351.IXFT6258.mta04.mail.mel.aone.net.au@ausyddtp0050.ozemail.com.au>; Sun, 4 Nov 2001 18:33:51 +1100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20011104183023.0518eb80@pop.ozemail.com.au> X-Sender: rbyrnes@pop.ozemail.com.au X-Mailer: I wish it was Linux Date: Sun, 04 Nov 2001 18:32:55 +1100 To: "Hrvoje Husic" From: Rob B Subject: Re: sysinstall sticks to serial on alpha Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org, husic@web.de In-Reply-To: <200111032006.fA3K6Cu07889@mailgate5.cinetic.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 07:06 4/11/2001, Hrvoje Husic sent this up the stick: >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 in 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? UDB/Multia boxen have TGA cards in them, TGA cards are not supported by the FreeBSD console drivers. Either put in another cards (if you have the PCI slot in your box) like a Matrox Millennium, or cobble together a null-modem cable and use a terminal program to run sysinstall. Rob -- Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum: I think I think, therefore I think I am. [15200.8 km (8207.8 mi), 262.8 deg](Apparent) Rennerian This is random quote 291 of a collection of 1183 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message