I recently pulled an old AlphaStation 200 4/233 out of storage and was
trying to get it working. I know it was working fine when I put it in there
a year ago, but now its giving me troubles.
When I boot it. It hangs at with the last line being.
pvp0 at pci0 slot 13
I next tried to boot it to the genvmunix kernel, no luck either.
Well, I updated the firmware to 7.0, and pretended to ignore the problem
because I was going to reinstall V4.0f on this machine(was v4.0d).
When I boot to the V4.0f CD, it still hangs at the pvp0 line.
NOTE: console was set to graphics
So I plugged my trusty dumb terminal into it, set console to serial, and
disconnected the monitor, and booted to the cd again. And it still hangs at
the pvp0 line.
What do I do from here? My first thought was to find an ECU disk and run
the config on it, but it doesn't seem that the AlphaStation 200s used
these, I can't do a runecu from the >>> prompt.
Further note, I did read the release notes for the firmware update, it had
me write down the isacfg info for my graphics card(PCXBJ) and then update
it. I did this(and have done it before on other machines with no problems).
I am sure I wrote everything down correctly... I think.
So does any of this sound familer to someone? Am I missing something really
simple(I hope!).
thanks
-grant
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Grant Schoep, grant_at_storm.com
System/Network Administrator
L3 Communications Telemetry & Instrumentation
San Jose,CA
Received on Tue May 09 2000 - 01:34:11 NZST