On Sun, 3 May 1998, emanuel stiebler wrote:
> 2. after installing all stuff, the machine booted, but i couldn't do
> anything on the console ...
> i got a login but ...
> console don't accept any character ?!?
> but, the VS seems to run, ping to is ok. 

Ok, I had this same problem which really annoyed me.. So I just started
punching keys until I eventually ended up in the VAX's bios area (F4). I
then typed CONTINUE at the bios prompt, and lo and behold that fixed it.
I then proceeded to log in as root.

Cheers,

Dave.