From owner-freebsd-alpha Mon Jan 8 19:43: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5939037B400 for ; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 19:42:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA17458; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:42:38 -0500 (EST) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.1/8.9.1) id f093gcq92868; Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:42:38 -0500 (EST) (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: Mon, 8 Jan 2001 22:42:38 -0500 (EST) To: norm@wiregrass.com Cc: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Subject: Re: alpha/24170: Problem installing on Alpha In-Reply-To: <200101090323.f093NJp10125@freefall.freebsd.org> References: <200101090323.f093NJp10125@freefall.freebsd.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.43 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Message-ID: <14938.34411.321981.712401@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org norm@wiregrass.com writes: > >Description: > When trying to do a CD boot install on an Alpha, it comes up with a option list for "Serial console type". There isn't a serial console connected to the machine. This is an exact duplicate machine of another Alpha we loaded FreeBSD on last week. Anyone have any ideas on this? > >How-To-Repeat: > Boot from FreeBSD 4.2 install CD > >Fix: > You failed to give any information regarding the type of machine you are installing onto. This makes us have to guess what your problem is from limited information.. In future reports, please include at least the model of the alpha and a brief description of the attached hardware. Show Conf output from the SRM console is prefered. Does it have a ZLXp- graphics adapter? (use show conf from the >>> SRM firmware prompt to determine this). If so, that adapter is not usable by the console code. You have 3 choices: 1) pull the ZLXp- card and plop in any random VGA card 2) set the console to serial. In the SRM console, do >>> set console serial >>> init You'll need a null modem (or a terminal) connected at 9600,8,n,1 3) try an alpha test version of the TGA driver. Its alpha-quality. Colors don't work, nor does the cursor, and it is glacially slow. If so, try http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/TGA/kern.tga.flp Assuming it works, after you've installed, grab http://www.cs.duke.edu/~gallatin/TGA/kernel.gz and replace /kernel with it. Otherwise you'll have the same "dead keyboard" symptom.. 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