Subject: Booting a DECstation 5000/120
To: None <port-pmax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Eric Corwin <ecorwin@fas.harvard.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/20/1998 15:45:04
Hi,
I just picked up a DECstation 5000/120 at a computer flea market.  I am not
sure if it will work but I tried to boot it and was unsuccesful.  It has a 
PMAG-A framebuffer and 4 memory simms (I think that they are 8 mb each).  
To boot it I obtained a vt320.  

I am completely unable to make the computer display anything on the vt320.  I 
have tried booting with the framebuffer in and out, with the terminal attatched
to serial port 2 and 3, I have tried booting with the memory removed.  In short,
I feel like I have exhausted my efforts.  The only output from the computer is
from the 8 leds in the back of the computer.  At power on all 8 flash on and 
then only leds 3,4,6,7 glow.  If anyone has any information about what this leds
mean or about how I can get this computer to boot it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much,
Eric Corwin