Re: [slackware-sparcdevel] serial console booting

From: Phil Howard (phil@ipal.net)
Date: Fri Dec 01 2000 - 21:04:14 PST


Another delay. The CDR I had previous used is gone. It might have gotten
tossed with some others that went out in the trash last week. So I need
to just burn another. However, due to rebuilding of 3 Intel machines, all
I have at the moment is one desktop machine, and no room for the SCSI card
to attach the CDR drive. So I'm working on getting these machines back up
ASAP. But I now have null modem cables on the serial ports of both of my
Sparc 5's, so as soon as the other machines are up, I can run two at the
same time.

> Phil,
>
> I'm working on the serial console booting problems you were having. Out
> of curiosity, did you try booting with this at the "ok" prompt:
>
> boot net serial
>
> Probably still won't work without the modified inittab, but give it a try
> and let me know.
>
> I should have a fixed up color.gz and tftp images within the next day.
>
> --
> David Cantrell | david@slackware.com *
> KG6CII | Slackware Linux Project

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