On Thu, 7 Jan 1999, Richard Henderson wrote: > On Wed, Jan 06, 1999 at 11:14:46AM -0800, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > Subject says it all...I have both a pc164 && a rawhide, neither has > > framebuffer/kbd. > > I've never tried it on an Alpha, but I know RH5.2 installs just > fine on serial console on a Sparc. So it's not inconcevable > that it will work. Yes. Both my SS10s and my UltraSparc are headless. > > Note that some DEC boxes won't boot without a bleeding keyboard > plugged in. I had this problem with an old turbochannel alpha > I was running headless once upon a time. I don't know if this > is true of rawhide. > No. My NetBSD port of RawHide (and TurboLaser and PC164) use nothing but the serial port (although I did make sure that kbd/monitor consoles actually work). The FreeBSD/alpha port was confused about serial when I tried it for pc164- haven't tried it elsewhere yet. I was really asking whether this was "known to be working" so that my experiences with it (on pc164) for the out of the box RH5.2 Alpha where it didn't work were just 'pilot error'. I guess what I'll just have to do is try it the hard way. I couldn't even get RH5.2 installed on the multia (couldn't find a console- even with TGA and keyboard- but with SRM, not ARC, active). I guess what I'll just do is take my old Alpha RH 4.2 system and clone it and lard it with more recent kernels and check the code out instead. La. Thanks. I'll report success or failure. And, gawd, it'd be nice if there was a 'one kernel fits all' for Alpha/Linux. And yes, I putzed on ever finishing the Linux/Turbolaser port (NASA/Ames is a 'NetBSD' shop- they didn't say no, but they sure discouraged me....such is life). -matt
