On Fri, Mar 23, 2001 at 03:49:44PM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2001 at 08:21:26AM -0500, Webmaster Jim wrote:
> > > > > I'm trying to upgrade an old machine I have (AMD 486x133) that has been
> > > > > running NetBSD 1.3.2.  Something seems to be wrong with the floppy
> > While thinking about nothing in particular, it dawned on me I can just
> > grab the hard drive and upgrade the system on a machine with a good
> > floppy.
> Oh, yeah. That would work, too. You should still copy your shared
> libraries to under /emul/aout before the upgrade. Also, move or copy [...]

OK, I took the drive to another machine and managed to get 1.5
installed. The sysinst installer didn't like something as it kept
complaining about filesystems not being clean, the partition ID being
old, and moving /etc to /etc.old and also halting with "sysint
terminated" (no other warnings). I updated the partition ID, unpacked
the distfiles, did MAKEDEV, etc. It was working to the point where I
could get a PPP connection and build  and install packages.

Now, I moved the drive to the original cabinet.  The boot works, finds
the kernel, checks the filesystem and gets to a login prompt.  However,
when I try to type something I get no echo.  The keyboard seems OK
during boot as I can start the BIOS screen, move around, change values,
etc.  I don't remember seeing anything specific about AT style keyboard
problems, but I know that the console interface has changed quite a bit
since 1.3.

What are my options?  Can I build a kernel with a different console?
Could someone give pointers to help on setting up a serial console?  I
felt like I was so close to having 1.5 running!

Thanks!

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