Subject: IP32 supports serial console only
To: None <port-sgimips@netbsd.org>
From: sNAAPS eLYK <3lucid@gmail.com>
List: port-sgimips
Date: 08/07/2006 23:10:06
I've finally managed to boot to the NetBSD 3.0 install CD on my O2.
It's a 200MHz R5k
But as soon as I boot to the CD, the Kernel Panics and it tells me
that it only supports a serial console!
Some googling has lead me to this
<http://www.wenks.ch/fabian/NetBSD-SGI-O2.txt> which makes me believe
that I'll need to use a null-modem cable to get a serial console so
that I can install NetBSD. Is this true? Or is there some env variable
I can change? My printenv is thus: