I have been attempting to install NetBSD on the machine for a while
(several months on-and-off as time permitted.)  Remote booting seems the
best approach as trying to write a disklabel on other systems has not
been a terrific success.

The machine has a mouse which connects to a separate keyboard port, and
has no serial console...  The machine started reporting this a few
months ago, it may be that the mouse is not plugged in properly, I will
try reseating the connection with the keyboard.

Thanks for the advice.

Peter

Simon Burge wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997 18:19:49 +1000  Peter Davie wrote:
> 
> > I have a DECstation 5000/120 and I am hoping to run NetBSD on it. There
> > are two problems with it, the first is that during its power on self
> > test, the message
> >
> > ?STF (4: Ln#1 Pntr self test)
> >
> > appears.  What does this message mean?
> 
> This means you don't have a pointer (mouse) plugged in (or it wasn't
> detected).  If you're using a serial console, it's nothing to worry
> about.  If you are using a serial console, you probably also got a
> similar message about Kbd as well as Pntr.
> 
> Otherwise, either your mouse or one of the serial ports may not be
> working.  From the "Ln#1" above I'd guess the mouse was on the second
> serial controller (scc1).  This could tie in with you getting no further
> than scc0 (the first serial controller).
> 
> > The second problem is that when I remote boot using BOOTP from a Sun
> > running Solaris 2.5.1, NetBSD 1.2 (Wed Sep 18 07:00:55 PDT 1996)
> > gets as far as the line
> > scc0 at asic0 offset 0x100000 priority 6
> >
> > and then comes to a dead halt.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> 
> The serial console is on scc0, so if you aren't using a serial console,
> you could try that.  When was the last time you used Ultrix on the
> machine?
> 
> Simon.

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