Gary Aitken wrote:
Well, nothing like feeling like a blind person...
I'm trying to boot / install 4.5 on a headless system.
I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I
try to use them.
[...]
boot.config looks like:
/boot/loader -h
I could be wrong, but isn't
On Tue, 10 Jun 2003, Gary Aitken wrote:
I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I
try to use them.
Give that I use that quite a lot with 4.8 - I'd expect that it perhaps is
something like COM1 not connected in the bios or on the motherboard ?
Dw
Well, nothing like feeling like a blind person...
I'm trying to boot / install 4.5 on a headless system.
I've made the serial console boot floppies, but get no response when I
try to use them.
I've got a vt220 plugged into com1; I know the cable is good because I
plugged it into com1 on a
The serial ports are ok.
However, in checking that out I discovered that it will boot from the
serial console if there is also a keyboard plugged in (no monitor).
So then I put the monitor on and unplugged the keyboard.
The boot sequence shows:
keyboard error
during the
I don't see one in this one. It's a pretty old BIOS in a micron
P200.
Bummer. Thanks.
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jun 10), Gary Aitken said:
The serial ports are ok.
However, in checking that out I discovered that it will boot from the
serial console if
In the last episode (Jun 10), Gary Aitken said:
I don't see one in this one. It's a pretty old BIOS in a micron
P200.
If you've got a Millennia, you should be able to go to the Main tab and
select Boot Sequence. Then go to POST Errors and set that to
[Disabled].
--
Dan
Unfortunately, this is the model just before the Millennia.
Looks like the only boot options are the order for floppy vs hard
disk.
Pooey.
Dan Nelson wrote:
In the last episode (Jun 10), Gary Aitken said:
I don't see one in this one. It's a pretty old BIOS in a micron
