Subject: Re: tftp booting DS5000/25+150 with problem prom
To: Simon Burge <simonb@telstra.com.au>
From: Michael L. Hitch <mhitch@lightning.oscs.montana.edu>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/05/1997 22:18:42
On Jul 6, 1:59pm, Simon Burge wrote:
> > It works!! However, it doesn't ask me for the desired root device.
> > It locks-up on the line:
> >
> > scc0 at asic0 offset 0x100000 priority 5_
> >
> > Maybe it is looking for the NFS server, which I haven't set up
> > yet. I don't know. I will work on this.
>
> I assume that because you have a DECsystem, you are using a serial
> console? That's about the time it switches to the serial driver instead
> of using PROM routines I think. How old is the kernel you're trying
> to boot? Is it -current, or 1.2? One thing that looks strange is the
> priority of scc0. On both the /240's and /260's here, the priority of
> scc0 is 5, not 6 - scc1 is at priority 5...
I think this was a 5000/25, which only has one scc, which is at priority
5. And that is the point where the serial console is reconfigured.
Michael
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Montana State University Bozeman, MT USA