Thanks to Thomas Leitner, Dave Bowler, Paul Mercure, Dr. Tom Blinn and
David Monroe for their suggestions.
> Hi.
>
> I'm trying to install 4.0D on a 164LX with firmware version 4.9-51
> and it hangs when jumping to bootstrap code. If I update to firmware
> 5.1-4, it just freezes on the blue screen of the SRM console, showing no
> prompt at all.
>
> I've set the following variables (as the installation guide says):
> boot_osflags ""
> auto_action halt
> boot_file
>
> The machine has an intraserver NCR875 scsi adapter with a seagate
> ST15230N and a Teac CDROM CD-516S attached, both narrow.
>
>
> What am I doing wrong?? :I
>
>
> (the box was using NT 4 with no problems).
The problem turned out to be the console variable on the SRM console
-duh-, it was set to serial (as was pointed out by Paul Mercure and David
Monroe, although everything on the console seemed to work ok, I assume it
was sending output to the serial port after the "jumping to bootstrap
code" message), when I set it to graphics it booted and happly installed
right away. :)
Thanks to all of you who answered so quickly.
Jose A. Guzman
Received on Thu May 07 1998 - 00:55:27 NZST