Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 00:07:49 +0200 From: Rainer =?iso-8859-1?Q?Frohnh=F6fer?= <rfrohn@ibm.net> To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problem installing on AlphaStation 400 4/233 Message-ID: <37979635.A1DEBDAA@ibm.net> References: <005101bec246$64888380$fe01a8c0@pacbell.net>
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John Howie wrote:
> I have a AlphaStation 400 4/233. I upgraded the SRM to v7 (from DEC's
> Web-site) and tried to install FreeBSD 3.2 Stable using kern.flp and
> mfsroot.flp from the FTP site. Everything seems to load fine but I
> cannot select my console type (I am given four options). It appears
> (if I read the kernel startup configuration information correctly)
> that the kernel is trying to use a serial console for the keyboard. I
> did (once) receive an error about my PCXAL keyboard and scan code
> (0x83, I believe) shortly after the menu was presented to me. The
> keyboard works fine in the system boot menus, the boot process (I can
> interrupt the autoboot and query the console value, which is set to
> prom) and when running Windows NT. Trying to be smart, I hooked up a
> laptop running term emulation to the serial port and while I .
[snip]
To take the first question further: How do I make FreeBSD take my
keyboard input on the console? The "console" is already set correctly,
it just doesn't take any input. Kernel parameter?
Help! (I want my Multia do anything useful, besides just warming my
feet ...)
--
"To save energy
the light at the end of the tunnel
will temporarily be switched off."
(I don't employ for my speaker)
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