From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Sep 10 7: 8:14 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from mail.alien.bt.co.uk (orb.alien.bt.co.uk [132.146.196.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 93B5514C49 for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 07:07:49 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jah@Alien.BT.CO.UK) Received: from Alien.BT.CO.UK(really [132.146.196.227]) by mail.alien.bt.co.uk via sendmail with esmtp id for ; Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:07:22 +0100 (BST) (Smail-3.2 1996-Jul-4 #3 built 1998-May-29) Message-ID: <37D910A0.9DD1668C@Alien.BT.CO.UK> Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 15:07:28 +0100 From: Jake Hill X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.2.11 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: alpha@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: SRM won't bootstrap kern.flp on my 164LX References: <19990910121944.E11AA1CAE@overcee.netplex.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Peter Wemm wrote: > It seems that the standard remedy is to do a 'set console graphics' at the > SRM >>> prompt... (of course, if it's already that way, then something > else is wrong) Ahh! >>>show console console serial I have more fun when I set this to graphics (I did need to power cycle to get it to pick up the new setting though). SRM now also prints a version string and gives me the >>> prompt when then machine is switched on. Previously I saw no version string (it was going to the serial port I guess) and I had to type C-x to get the prompt. I didn't understand this, until now. Many thanks for your help. /.J To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message