Subject: Re: IIcx problems
To: Matthew E. Shafer <shafer@next.cc.wmich.edu>
From: mat <busy@aloha.com>
List: macbsd-general
Date: 11/22/1994 21:22:32
At 7:42 PM 11/22/94, Matthew E. Shafer wrote:
>I just spent the day installing the 1.0 install on a 88MB SyQuest
>attached to a IIcx. For the most part, things went very smoothly. In
>fact, I have been able to fully boot into NetBSD. But I've reached a
>strange problem. The booter runs fine and after a bit I get to the
>login: prompt. Typing root attempts to log me in. It is successful
>until the prompt changes to myname#. At this point, the system
>freezes. No errors are reported at anytime before this. Any
>suggestions?

Sounds like you're seeing the "scrolling bug". The only real solutions at
this point are to either use the 'dt' program, or use an external terminal
hooked to a serial port. Of course, both require that you boot into a
usable shell to configure them, so...

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