Subject: Booting a DEC 3000/400 in Console Mode
To: None <port-alpha@netbsd.org>
From: John F. Cortes Jr. <john.cortes@yale.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/18/2001 14:30:57
Does anyone know how to get a DEC 3000/400 to boot into Console Mode?
I have tried going from the 25pin printer port to my 9 pin serial port with
a null modem adapter attached and I get no output to the console software I
am running. I tried to make a cable from MMJ to DB9 and that also didn't
work. The keyboard and video cable are unattached during this sequence. I
am able to boot into the SRM console with the keyboard and video attached,
but when I boot NetBSD from cd I get some errors that it can't find some
files and then I eventually get a prompt that it is switching to the serial
console and I still get nothing on the console software. Any help is
greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Frank Cortes