Re: No kernel output on MicroVAX 3100-30

[Johnny Billquist <bqt%update.uu.se@localhost>]

On 2018-08-31 17:20, Erno Palonheimo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I installed 8.0 on a Microvax 3100-30's local disk by booting the
> installation install.ram via netboot. The installation went smoothly,
> but the GENERIC kernel seems not to start at all. The last thing I see
> on the serial console are the bootloader's reports on kernel section
> sizes, after that there is no output.
>
> I tried booting to the install system again and setting up the disk
> contents so that the machine should come up on the network. Didn't
> work. Also, I noticed that there is no output in /var/log files so
> apparently the system never boots up. Also, I tried serving the
> GENERIC kernel over the same netboot system that boots the
> installation kernel just fine - same thing, it just freezes.
>
> Any ideas?

Sounds rather like console output is directed somewhere else. Is this 
maybe a VAXstation originally?

  Johnny

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