Subject: Re: VAXstation 3100 questions
To: David Burrows <snadge@gemcorp.com.au>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 02/03/1998 01:46:50
On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, David Burrows wrote:
> I can't quite understand why it can't find it. I have successfully mop
> booted the same machine, from a linux box. I mounted sd0a, in /mnt/root,
> untarred base.tgz and copied the netbsd kernel into the root. The only
> other thing i did was copy /usr/mdec/xxboot to /usr/mdec/sdboot, and run
> "disklabel -B /dev/sd0a". What else can I try?
>
Have you got a copy of '/boot' on the disk as well?
> Also, do you have an idea how I can get the graphic console to emulate a
> terminal? I cannot hook anything up to the serial port (non standard),
> and a friend I know with the same model has his 21" screen displaying
> stuff. My present solution of telnetting into it isn't much fun.
>
If your friend running NetBSD on his machine?
As for the non-standard serial cable - you could use an RJ11 cable
with an RJ11 -> DB25 adaptor on one end.
Hmm.. does anyone have a copy of Bertram Barth's switch MMU off,
output char, switch MMU back on' console hack with which we could
compile a kernel to help people along until full support is
integrated (in much the same way as the PIO scsi kernel)
David/absolute
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