Subject: Re: dec 3000 problem
To: None <david@fundy.ca, tobi@physcip.uni-stuttgart.de>
From: Ross Harvey <ross@ghs.com>
List: port-alpha
Date: 07/04/1999 00:22:08
> From: David Maxwell <david@fundy.ca>
>
> On Sat, Jul 03, 1999 at 01:07:16AM +0200, Tobias Ernst wrote:
> > Hallo!
> > 
> > Today I tried to install NetBSD 1.4 on one of our DEC 3000 workstations. The
> > one I was trying has a SCSI floppy disk (!), so booting from floppies seemed
> > the natural version. The system read the NetBSD boot floppies flawlessly and
> > loaded the kernel without problems.
> > 
> > scc0 at ioasci0 offset 0x100000
> > 
> > What would you suggest me to do? If it is the firmware, which one should I use,
> > and where can I get it? If it is the ISDN thing, how can I stop the kernel from
> > probing this particular deivce? Any other guesses?
>
> Can't speak to the firmware issue, except to say maybe you could get
> a second chip so you could swap out the current one, and know that
> going back to it would work?
>
> As for the probe, someone could build you a custom kernel without that
> device in it. Is there a boot-tiny available? It might not have that
> device in it.

Actually, this sounds like a NetBSD console problem. Are you using a
serial console by any chance?

Or perhaps there is a display, but SRM is setup with `set console serial'?

	---Ross