Subject: Re: 3000/300LX boot hangs
To: Ron Copley <ron@mue211.marshall.edu>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/09/1996 17:40:08
> My DEC 3000/300LX (completely stock) won't boot the NetBSD RZ25 image...
> everything fires up OK, and NetBSD begins its boot sequence, finds the
> video, then hangs with
> scc0 at ioasic0 offset 0x100000
> It does some more disk activity, then just sits there. What's up?
You're using a frame buffer as console, right?
To quote the distribution README (complete with typos 8-):
If your are using one of the supported systems that includes a
PCI bus, and have either a PCI VGA frame buffer of any type or
a ZLXp-E1 frame buffer, you may use it as console. (If you
are using your frame buffer as the console, you should use the
terminal type 'sun'.) Otherwise (if you are using a TurboChannel
Alpha or have a different kind of frame buffer, you have to use
a serial console.)
On all DEC 3000-family systems, you need to be using a serial console.
chris