On Wed, Aug 03, 2005 at 04:35:07PM +1000, Crossfire wrote:
> Rajnish was once rumoured to have said:
> > All,
> >
> > I've come in possession of an Alphastation 500/400 which has
> > OpenVMS. I would like to install Debian on it
> > however after hours of googling, I've discovered that I need to
> > know much more about this beast (read: *fun*) than I know about my
> > AMD-PC.
> >
> > So this beast (out of respect, I won't call it a 'box') doesn't
> > have a monitor nor a graphic card. Thus, I use the serial port hooked
> > to an old hp-laptop.
> >
> > I can see the bootup process starting, followed immediatly by
> > OpenVMS and then the login: prompt. No telltale sign of an
> > SRM console (">>>").
> >
> > My question(s) are:
> > how to I get to the SRM console ? Is there a special key I have to
> > press ? (I am connected via serial port using Terminal.exe on win95!!)
>
> Pull the cover off whilst the AS500 is turned off. There should be a
> little chart showing the jumpers on the board. rejumper the reset
> switch (on the front) to be a HALT switch instead of a RESET switch by
> following the diagram[1].
>
> Now, turn your machine on, and give the HALT switch (the little button
> on the front that was once a reset switch) a good tapping whilst the
> machine is booting up. You should eventually get a SRM prompt.
>
> Once that is all done, you can try to install Debian and join in with
> those of us screaming because the stupid netboot installer doesn't
> work on the AS500. (But, for some perverse reason, does on miata).
> If you find yourself in this situation, use the woody netboot
> installer instead.not sure if this is the case with teh as500, but on a es45 you can try the magic key sequence to get to the rmu ^[^[rmu and then type halt in, also I have found pressing ctrl-c during boot up breaks the srm from doing the auto boot. once in srm type set_env auto_action halt so that it doesn't auto restart the os on reboot and then bob's your uncle! > > C. > > [1] Following said diagram is beyond scope of this post > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html >
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