Subject: Re: any success with serial boot on PB 170?
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@edsi.org>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/05/2000 16:03:12
Scott Reynolds wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Mar 1996, Brian Wimberly wrote:
> 
> > Boot messages appear on the PB screen, and it gets as far as asking for which
> > shell I want ("enter path of shell or type return for sh). Nothing appears
> > on the 486
> > screen. Neither keyboard does anything useful, and both machines lock up and
> > have to be rebooted.
> 
> Worth noting:  I've had a horrendous time getting the serial console 
> running from the "printer" port.  I've given up and moved my modem there, 
> and put my terminal on the "modem" port.
> 
> I'm running Booter 1.8, and I've triple checked the settings in the 
> Options -> Booting dialog to no avail.  I don't really have the time to 
> investigate this at the moment, unfortunately.

aren't newer versions of the booter smarter about the various PB serial
port issues?

-colin