24 Dec
2001
24 Dec
'01
12:52 p.m.
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Robert Schaefer wrote:
On a side note, if you plan to run NetBSD there is a
little known
misfeature: it will frob something in the flash that the prom doesn't like,
and forever after (until someone finds out what it's tweaking and fixes it)
it will throw a non-fatal error in (IIRC) SYS, which will (or so I've been
told-- I don't run this machine just now) keep it from booting
automatically. Starting VMS doesn't seem to fix it, altho there seems to be
no other impact.
It looks like you're saying that, having booted NetBSD, I can no longer
run the VS4000 headless? Right now, set to serial console, it won't even
post until I power up the serial terminal. And on this box, powering
down the VT420 is a guaranteed halt. Have I misconfigured something, or
am I stuck with this?
The 3100 m38 autoboots NetBSD quite happily with no console attached.
Since the hardware notes at NetBSD didn't give any warnings, I sort
ofexpected the same.
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