| T.R | Title | User | Personal
Name | Date | Lines |
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| 9122.1 | | NETRIX::"paradis@zk3.dec.com" | paradis | Wed Mar 12 1997 10:42 | 6 |
| Set console serial should work. I assume you have the terminal set
to 9600 baud, 8 bit and no parity? I assume you also did an init
after issuing the set console command?
--dennis
[Posted by WWW Notes gateway]
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| 9122.2 | Swap the serial port | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Wed Mar 12 1997 15:49 | 6 |
| And assuming the AlphaStation has 2 serial ports in the back, you have
connected to the "correct" one? If you connect to the wrong one,
system will boot but after certain stage of booting, all the output
will go to the "right" one making you think that system is hung.
- Vikas
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| 9122.3 | Problem only when booted | ZPOVC::HWEETECK | | Wed Mar 12 1997 23:54 | 4 |
| I was able to see the console prompt at the terminal, but once I do a
`boot`, the I'll lost the terminal.
Hwee Teck
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| 9122.4 | Still unsolved :-( | ZPOVC::HWEETECK | | Fri Mar 14 1997 03:08 | 10 |
| Replying .1 Terminal Settig --OK
Replying .2 Physical Connection -- OK
Console prompt is available on the serial console. The problem comes
when the `boot` command is issued.
Did I miss anything on SERIAL CONSOLE for DU 4.0?
Thanks for help :-)
Hwee Teck
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| 9122.5 | Hangs at "jumping to bootstrap code" ??? | HELIX::SONTAKKE | | Fri Mar 14 1997 12:20 | 79 |
| Here is an extract when "boot hangs"
>>>
>>>show config
Digital Equipment Corporation
Digital Modular Computing
Firmware
SRM Console: X4.8-1133
PALcode: VMS PALcode V5.56-6, OSF PALcode X1.45-12
Processor
DECchip (tm) 21064A-6 266Mhz
MEMORY
64 Meg of System Memory
Bank 0 = 64 Mbytes() Starting at 0x0
2Mb 12nS Secondary Cache
PCI Bus
Bus 00 Slot 07: Intel SIO 82378
Bus 00 Slot 18: Digital ZLXp Graphics Controller
Bus 00 Slot 19: Digital Memory Channel
Bus 00 Slot 20: DECchip 21052-AA
Bus 01 Slot 12: NCR 810 Scsi Controller
pka0.7.0.1012.0 SCSI Bus ID 7
dka0.0.0.1012.0 RZ28
dka400.4.0.1012.0 RRD42
Bus 01 Slot 14: DECchip 21040 Network Controller
ewa0.0.0.1014.0
08-00-2B-E6-5C-3C
ISA
Slot Device Name Type Enabled BaseAddr IRQ
DMA
0
0 MOUSE Embedded Yes 60 12
1 KBD Embedded Yes 60 1
2 COM1 Embedded Yes 3f8 4
3 COM2 Embedded Yes 2f8 3
4 LPT1 Embedded Yes 3bc 7
5 FLOPPY Embedded Yes 3f0 6
2
>>>b -fl s
(boot dka0.0.0.1012.0 -flags s)
block 0 of dka0.0.0.1012.0 is a valid boot block
reading 16 blocks from dka0.0.0.1012.0
bootstrap code read in
base = 1f8000, image_start = 0, image_bytes = 2000
initializing HWRPB at 2000
initializing page table at 1ea000
initializing machine state
setting affinity to the primary CPU
jumping to bootstrap code
****************** APPARENT HANG ******************
This is because I connected the serial line to COMB port
When I swapped the serial line to COMA port, I get the following :
#
#
# pwd
/
# uname -a
uname: not found
# time
time: not found
#
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| 9122.6 | THANX..Problem Solved. | ZPOVC::HWEETECK | | Thu Mar 20 1997 00:55 | 6 |
| Thanx guys for those pointers. I have checked the physical connection
again. Everything is right. It's just the console cable type which is
giving problem.
Rgds
Hwee Teck
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| 9122.7 | Check console printer if present | CHOWDA::VARANESE | Minding my A, B and C | Fri Mar 28 1997 13:45 | 13 |
| I was looking for help here when I found my problem so here
it is incase it can help someone else.
After >>>SET CONSOLE SERIAL
I could get no response from either the graphic device or the
console VT330.
The problem was I had also hooked up a LA75 to the VT to get
a hard copy of the boot-up. The printer ran out of paper
and the boot process hung until it was serviced.
So check that any printer connected to a VT console
device is on-line and ready.
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