Subject: Re: Seriel port on 425
To: Per Nielsen <pkn@ostenfeld.dk>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
List: port-hp300
Date: 08/30/1998 12:10:11
On Sat, 29 Aug 1998 15:03:47 +0200
Per Nielsen <pkn@ostenfeld.dk> wrote:
> I have looked in a lot of letters in the netbsd/hp300 archive. And a lot of
> the says that I have to set the console to remote. But when I fires ud the
> 425, and enters the config menu - I don't see anything about the seriel
> port. All I see is : Lan, SCSI and HP Parallel. But if I go into
> Domaine/OS mode and lists the devs. It finds 3 seriel port.
Looks like you have a 425e... the BOOTROM on those machines cannot talk
to the serial console. However, the NetBSD/hp300 boot block and kernel
should be able to talk to the serial console just fine.
Try loading the boot program (maybe via the network) and see if it works...
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