From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 29 02:40:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA06148 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:40:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA06143 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 02:40:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (herring.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.2]) by nlsystems.com (8.9.1/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA28809; Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:43:05 GMT Date: Thu, 29 Oct 1998 10:43:05 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: Jim King cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AlphaStation 200 doesn't boot? In-Reply-To: <199810290530.XAA05496@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 28 Oct 1998, Jim King wrote: > After all the messages below there's no further output. This box doesn't > have a video card - is there a boot flag I need to tell the kernel to use > the serial console, or something? There is a problem with the syscons probe when a machine doesn't actually have a video card. At the moment, you will need a kernel which has the syscons driver removed. This is on my list of things to fix but if someone beats me to it, I won't complain :-) -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 951 1891 Fax: +44 181 381 1039 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message