Subject: Re: any success with serial boot on PB 170?
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@clank.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/14/2000 18:26:18
This is incredible!  I wonder what backups got restored that ended up with
this getting posted over 4 years later...

--scott

On 3/1/96 6:27 PM, Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org> wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Brian Wimberly wrote:
> 
>> Boot messages appear on the PB screen, and it gets as far as asking for which
>> shell I want ("enter path of shell or type return for sh). Nothing appears
>> on the 486
>> screen. Neither keyboard does anything useful, and both machines lock up and
>> have to be rebooted.
> 
> Worth noting:  I've had a horrendous time getting the serial console
> running from the "printer" port.  I've given up and moved my modem there,
> and put my terminal on the "modem" port.
> 
> I'm running Booter 1.8, and I've triple checked the settings in the
> Options -> Booting dialog to no avail.  I don't really have the time to
> investigate this at the moment, unfortunately.
> 
> --scott
>