From owner-freebsd-alpha Fri Dec 4 06:26:45 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA05330 for freebsd-alpha-outgoing; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 06:26:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from pacific.net (pacific.pacific.net [199.4.80.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA05325 for ; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 06:26:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ufkartfm@pacific.net) Received: from pacific.net (slime-lake.pacific.net [209.209.2.250]) by pacific.net (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id GAA07891; Fri, 4 Dec 1998 06:26:18 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <366780A1.E7D98D0@pacific.net> Date: Fri, 04 Dec 1998 06:26:41 +0000 From: curtis Organization: Flying Snail Ranch X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.07 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jim King CC: "freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: Re: Multia - now booting from hard disk - flag problem References: <199812040639.AAA11885@oasis.zycor.lgc.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Good Morning Jim, Thank you! (blush - chuckle) It never occurred to me, to try telneting to the Multia (Wavy tells me this is due to chromosome amnesia from the '60s - snicker) and needless to say, it worked. $ telnet 192.168.1.19 Trying 192.168.1.19... Connected to 192.168.1.19. Escape character is '^]'. FreeBSD/alpha (multia.alienbabies.org) (ttyp1) login: ufkartfm Password: Last login: Fri Dec 4 13:35:12 from 192.168.1.5 Copyright (c) 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1991, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD 3.0-19981128-SNAP (alienbabies) #1: Fri Dec 4 05:29:02 GMT 1998 $ su multia# On the P2 minicom (where I boot the Multia from and under the date where I thought it was hung) I am getting (smile) abbreviated messages (like a normal root window) in the form of a capital letter D when I 'su' under telnet; example follows (I have four 'su' telnet sessions running): Local package initialization:. starting local daemons:. Fri Dec 4 13:32:40 GMT 1998 <---- where I thought it was hanging DDDD <---- appear when I su from telnet so it looks like some information is making back to the boot window. Very Best2u, curtis Jim King wrote: > > At 10:26 PM 12/3/98 +0000, curtis wrote: > >I finally have it booting from the hard disk (smile) and > >disklabel -B -b /usr/mdec/boot1 /dev/da0c works for me. > > > >The new problem only occurs when I do: >>>boot dka0 -flags a or > >>>>boot dka0 and enter ^D at the prompt which results in a 'hang' > >at the date. > > > [deleted] > >Local package initialization:. > >starting local daemons:. > >Fri Dec 4 05:38:08 GMT 1998 > >[this is where it hangs] > > My AlphaStation 200 does this also, but it's not actually hung. The serial > console is unresponsive, but I can telnet to it from another box and > everything works fine. I don't have a boot.conf - I was wondering if there > needs to be some command in there, or maybe something /etc/ttys. > Unfortunately I haven't had time to chase this down... > > Jim -- curtis - ufkartfm@pacific.net - site administrator for Nobody I want Nobody to control my life! How about you? http://www.netvideo.com/nobody To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message