Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 08:45:19 -0700 From: "John Howie" <JHowie@msn.com> To: <freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org> Subject: Problem installing on AlphaStation 400 4/233 Message-ID: <005101bec246$64888380$fe01a8c0@pacbell.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Folks, 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 was able to start the boot process from that, once FreeBSD started it required me to use the console keyboard instead (all output is sent to the console screen as well, and not to the serial port). When I get back to the menu with the four console options the keyboard is unresponsive and the term emulator does not appear to work. Help! john... [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT size=2>Folks,</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>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.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Trying to be smart, I hooked up a laptop running term emulation to the serial port and while I was able to start the boot process from that, once FreeBSD started it required me to use the console keyboard instead (all output is sent to the console screen as well, and not to the serial port). When I get back to the menu with the four console options the keyboard is unresponsive and the term emulator does not appear to work.</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>Help!</FONT></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><FONT size=2>john...</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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