Have you tried hooking a terminal up to the serial port? 9600/8/none/1 ...

Good thing you have the cache. It'd be a bit slower otherwise...

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! -----Original Message-----
! From: Ghering Paul [mailto:Paul.Ghering@Centric.nl]
! Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 11:52 AM
! To: 'David Woyciesjes'
! Cc: 'port-alpha@netbsd.org'
! Subject: RE: blank-blue-screen on AXPPCI33
! 
! 
! The ctrl-alt-del didn't work. But there are 11 cachechips in it.
! 
! -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
! Van: David Woyciesjes [mailto:DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu]
! Verzonden: dinsdag 24 juli 2001 16:12
! Aan: 'Ghering Paul'; 'port-alpha@netbsd.org'
! Onderwerp: RE: blank-blue-screen on AXPPCI33
! 
! 
! 	Sounds familiar to me. Same sort of thing. Try hitting
! [Ctrl][Alt][Del]. It's not documented anywhere, from what I 
! (and others)
! have seen, but it seemed to work.
! 	BTW, do you have any cahce chips in it? (set of 11 
! sockets on the
! board)
! 
! ---   David A Woyciesjes
! ---   C & IS Support Specialist
! ---   Yale University Press
! ---   mailto:david.woyciesjes@yale.edu
! ---   (203) 432-0953
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! 
! 
! ! -----Original Message-----
! ! From: Ghering Paul [mailto:Paul.Ghering@Centric.nl]
! ! Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 10:04 AM
! ! To: 'port-alpha@netbsd.org'
! ! Subject: blank-blue-screen on AXPPCI33
! ! 
! ! 
! ! Hello,
! ! 
! ! I recently bought an Alpha system with AXPPCI33 systemboard 
! ! with MILO loaded
! ! in flash. To install NetBSD on this system I will need the 
! ! SRM-console. So I
! ! created(?) the failsafe bootflop from fwupdate.exe and 
! mkboot.exe and
! ! changed the jumper thing. When I powerup my system it will 
! start from
! ! floppy, after I while the videobios is shown for a short time 
! ! and the screen
! ! is turning blue with the flashing cursorline in the top left 
! ! corner. from
! ! this point nothing happens. Do I forget something at this 
! ! point. I tried
! ! everything to create the failsafe floppy on different ways(fdimage,
! ! makeboot)with the files provided on gatekeeper.dec.com and 
! the Compaq
! ! firmware CD, but the result is always the same. The milo 
! ! failsafe loader
! ! from floppy with image milo.dd is loading just fine, but lacks the
! ! possibility to update the flash with SRM (right?).
! ! My configuration is AXPPCI33 with 166Mhz Alpha, Diamond PCI 
! ! Stealth, 4x4MB
! ! 36bit (upgrade is planned),floppy, 1.1GB SCSI-2 HDD and MILO 
! ! 2.0.30 loaded
! ! in flash.
! ! I 'm sure there must be a solution for this, Can anybody help me?
! ! 
!