Jamie Scuglia wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 07, 1999 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Michael L. Hitch wrote:
> 
> >   I was unable to boot a -current kernel on my 5000/200 running with a
> > serial console.  Mine hung when it configured the serial driver.
> > 
> >   It looks to me like the separation between the 3100 and 5000/200 serial
> > console initialization was removed, and the 5000/200 is trying to use the
> > 3100 address of the serial chip.  I hacked the serial console
> > initialization to use the 5000/200 address, and was able to boot the
> > system (but that will break the 3100 console).  I haven't figured out what
> > needs to be done to fix this yet.
> 
> Could we please have a copy of your "hacked" kernel?  We have a collection
> of DEC 5000/200's we were hoping to back up using dump(8), however
> we can only use a current kernel for it to work.  I'm quite happy to
> have different kernels on different types of systems, so long as
> they work.

If you can compile a -current kernel, in sys/arch/pmax/dev/dc_ds.c,
change the two occurances of KN01_SYS_DZ in dc_ds_consinit() to
KN02_SYS_DZ.  Note that this kernel will then not work on a 3100...

Simon.