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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.direct.ca!news-feed.inet.tele.dk!uninett.no!news.uni-c.dk!newsfeed.sunet.se!news99.sunet.se!news99.sunet.se!parabol.taide.net!absolut.taide.net!goliat.c3.hu!visio!pisti From: Pecsenyanszky Istvan <pisti@c3.hu> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: netbooting MicroVAX 2000 Date: Mon, 7 Jul 1997 14:05:03 +0200 Organization: C3 - Center for Culture and Communication Lines: 23 Message-ID: <Pine.SGI.3.96.970707135547.5643B-100000@visio> NNTP-Posting-Host: visio.c3.hu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Sender: pisti@visio To: Bertram Barth <bertram@gummo.bbb.sub.org> In-Reply-To: <199707022237.AAA23066@gummo.bbb.sub.org> Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc:6227 On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Bertram Barth wrote: > NetBSD/vax doesn't support graphic console yet, only console terminals. > > The boot-routines are using the built-in ROM routines for output, thus > they work for both, graphic and terminal. But when the kernel starts, > then only terminals are supported as console... [...] > This looks exactly like the above mentioned problem with the graphic > console. The kernel has been loaded successfully and now the kernel > is executed. Output is no longer done to graphic console bu to terminal > only. > > In other words: It seems to work, you just can't see it. ;-) Yes, you are right. I've switched the nfsd in debug mode on the Linux server, and I can see, that after loading the kernel the VAX runs init and its startup scripts. I've managed to login to the VAX from network, but the console still doesn't work. (The console works fine with ULTRIX and with VMS.) Istvan