Subject: RE: AXPpci 33 166MHz Mobo & parity RAM?
To: David Woyciesjes <DAW@yalepress3.unipress.yale.edu>
From: Chris Tribo <t1345@hopi.dtcc.edu>
List: port-alpha
Date: 06/07/2001 11:12:48
On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, David Woyciesjes wrote:

> -> -----Original Message-----
> -> From: Chris Tribo [mailto:ctribo@del.net]
> -> 
> ->     FWIW, output will go to serial console if any one of 
> -> {keyboard, mouse, frame buffer} are not present. I had a
> -> keyboard and a video  card, and it still switched to the
> -> serial console on the PS/2 mouse &&  keyboard model of
> -> the motherboard. Now I just need to directly attach that 3" 
> -> fan to the heatsink...
> -> 
> ->     Yay for BSD!
> -> 
> ->     Chris
> 
> Chris ---
> 	I have to respectfully disagree here. My AXPpci33 has the PS2 mouse
> & keyboard, and _will_ booot to console with only the keyboard and display
> connected (no mouse). Same as my Multias...

	Well mine won't. Do you know what version of the console you're
using? I just remember mine being built in late 1994 V3.1 maybe. It's
written down at home. I saw printed on the console *** no mouse connected
switching to serial console *** at each boot.



	Chris