Subject: Re: Alive?
To: None <lucc@alge.anart.no>
From: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/06/2007 15:27:40
lucc@alge.anart.no skrev:
> Hi, and thank you for answering. S1 should of course be S3, and what
> I mean is that I halted the machine, set HALT 2, turned off the vax,
> disconneted the terminal, and turned on the vax. After a few secs is
> made the familiar beeps. Then nothing. I guess it was waiting for
> user input. What I have figured out is that if there is noe keyboard
> connected when S3 is down, the 4k60 halt at boot since the missing
> keyboard is understood as a failure, overriding the HALT 2. I'll
> do some more testing on this, but from my trial and error, and from
> several places on the net, I understand that to autoboot you need
> either a terminal connected to the DECport or at least a keyboard.
> But I could of course be very wrong. ;)
Hmm. Are you sure it should be 2?
And also, the boot device must be set, and perhaps something more. BFLG
obviously must match what NetBSD expects to get into multiuser (0 should
do it).
I guess I could dig out the manuals to check the HALT flag values...
Johnny
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