From: Thomas Leitner (tom@radar.tu-graz.ac.at)
Date: Tue Aug 20 2002 - 10:37:52 EDT
Thanks everybody for your replies. Everybody suggested using
>>> set console serial
>>> init
which I already did. Now for testing, I've hooked a video monitor and
keyboard/mouse on the box and did a "set console graphics" and
4.0g still does not boot.
I think there's some corrupted partition table or something similar,
because I've tried to reinstall 4.0g in graphics mode now and the
partition tool shows me weird partition tables.
So thanks again everybody for your replies. I'm currently reformatting
the second disk and re-installating in graphics mode and then I'll make
another attempt in serial console mode.
Tom
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Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2002 15:26:53 +0100 (BST)
From: John Deacon <jrd@star.ucl.ac.uk>
To: Thomas Leitner <tom@radar.tu-graz.ac.at>
Subject: Re: 4.0g on DS20e with serial console.
hi tom -
have you tried
>>> set console serial
before booting ?
i had a similar problem with another machine and even after doing "set
console serial" it still insisted in trying to use a non-existent
graphics console. i think if it detects a keyboard plugged in then it
assumes it has graphics and will default to that no matter what you try
to tell it...
cheers,
john
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Thomas Leitner wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> This is an update to my 4.0g vs. 4.0f on DS20e question. Many people
> replied and told me that 4.0g supports both the DE600 and the Adaptec
> on the DS20e. So I went ahead and tried 4.0g on a DS20e today.
>
> I'm working on a serial console on this DS20e and I've installed
> all subsets during the installation.
>
> Now, much to my surprise, after building the kernel, the machine won't
> boot anymore. It just sits there after the following output on the serial
> console:
>
> UNIX boot - Sun May 14 05:34:40 EDT 2000
>
> Loading vmunix ...
> Loading at 0xfffffc0000230000
>
> Sizes:
> text = 4063632
> data = 684464
> bss = 1066992
> Starting at 0xfffffc000049f970
>
> I have the suspicion that the machine just uses the graphics console after
> that point because I can see the harddisk light flickering and the machine
> sounds as if it would continue booting.
>
> The same thing happens when booting genvmunix. However, I can still boot
> Tru64 4.0f without problems (I got two harddisks there, 4.0f is on dka0
> and 4.0g is on dka100).
>
> Any ideas what could be wrong here? I suspect some SRM issue but the SRM
> version seems to be quite new:
>
> COMPAQ AlphaServer DS20E 666 MHz Console V6.2-1, Apr 11 2002 11:52:46
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks a lot // Tom
>
>
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