Re: [TCLUG:19105] Alpha problems

[Ben Kochie <ben@nerp.net>]

yes.. a null modem.. aka laplink cable will work just fine.. I'm not
familiar with the EB164 boards, I have a couple of SX164 boards, and have
worked with a few other alpha models.. they do support serial booting,
what you are going to end up with is the SRM command line for digital
unix, it is mostly useless for running linux, because most of the distro's
don't support BSD style partition tables.. (you can't use a drive with
fdisk partition tables with SRM, afaik)  so you are going to want to
switch back to the ARC (NT) boot mode.. or the alphabios mode (depending
on what kind you have).. there is also a way to reset this functionality
with firmware updates from digital.. but they can be a pain in the ass to
load on some systems.

Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Charles Clifton Fulton wrote:

> I'd need a proper null modem cable instead of just a patch cable to do
> that right?
> 
> I've never set up serial terminal before... I looked through the HOW-TOs
> but it wasn't clear if I could use the Linux box as a terminal for 
> something else.  Mostly what I saw was how to set up a terminal on a
> Linux box serial port.
> 
> Charlie
> 
> 
> On Thu, 22 Jun 2000, Mike Hicks wrote:
> 
> > > I changed the boot setting from NT to Digital UNIX and powered the system
> > > down like it asked me to.  Now I don't get any output from the video card.
> > > The keyboard LEDs blink and it beeps just as usual but doesn't display
> > > anything.
> > 
> > I know next to nothing about Alphas, but I'm curious if you would get
> > anything by connecting a laptop or something to the serial port. 
> > Perhaps the Digital UNIX mode doesn't initialize the video card,
> > assuming that you're going for the headless server situation..
> > 
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