From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu Oct 8 05:24:46 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA21548 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 05:24:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA21540 for ; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 05:24:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA29453; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:24:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id IAA23182; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:24:12 -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 Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 08:24:12 -0400 (EDT) To: Jacques Vidrine Cc: alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: interesting quote from http://cnls.lanl.gov/avalon/FAQ.html#A1 In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <13852.43946.527390.358341@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Jacques Vidrine writes: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Nooo!!!! AHHHHHH! > > Does ARC run on a serial console, by the way? It at least attempts to talk to it if the machine doesn't have a video card... We recently got some headless DPW500a's. When switching them over to SRM, I found that the alphabios would spew unintelligable garbage out the 0th serial port when I connected it to a kermit session running in vt100 mode at 9600,8,n,1. I gave up this approach & temporarily put a powerstorm into them just to switch consoles. Perhaps if I had been using a different terminal type... Drew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Andrew Gallatin, Sr Systems Programmer http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin Duke University Email: gallatin@cs.duke.edu Department of Computer Science Phone: (919) 660-6590 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message