Subject: Re: Alive?
To: Johnny Billquist <bqt@softjar.se>
From: None <lucc@alge.anart.no>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/06/2007 17:20:55
> 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

Hi, yes, the settings were correct, but i discovered that the tranciever
for the NIC halted the vax when i moved it, of course. So all is well :-)

/Luke