Subject: tip(1) alpha serial console problems
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: Mike Stone <bsdusr@www.yawp.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 04/14/2001 14:49:44
hey all -
i've got two problems, both of which relate to my attempts to use
tip(1) to connect to a serial console on an AlphaServer 1000 on which i
want to do an OS install. i have two different i386 boxes that i'm
trying to use as console machines, one running NetBSD-1.4.2, and the other
running NetBSD-1.5.
my first problem is that i can't get tip(1) to connect at all on the
NetBSD-1.5 machine. i get a permission error, and a message that the
link is down:
bash-2.04# tip console
/dev/tty01: Permission denied
link down
i've crawled through various manpages trying to find a solution, but
haven't found what i need yet. if someone could point me to the
right FM, i'd appreciate it.
tip(1) does work on the NetBSD-1.4.2 box, as verified by the fact that i
can make a serial connection to my USR switch. that leads to the second,
and more vexing problem, though:
the alpha is completely silent.
when i power up the machine, i get a series of blinking lights across the
front as it (presumably) tests the drives, but the blasted thing will not
give me a firmware command line, no matter what i/o devices i hook up to
it. keybaord and monitor give me a blank screen, serial terminal is
dead, even the little LCD on the front of the machine is blank.
this is confusing, because the last time i tried to boot the machine (a
couple of months ago), everything worked normally. i can't think of
anything i would have done to the machine to make it submerge this way, or
more importantly, to make it resurface.
any suggestions would be deeply appreciated.
mike stone
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