davecb@yunexus.YorkU.CA (David Collier-Brown) (08/25/90)
berman@paul.rutgers.edu (Michael Berman) writes: >I have added 8 meg to my DECsystem 3100 (which is functionally >equivalent to a DECstation 3100, without a monitor). This reminded me of a problem with DECstations (2100s, to be precise) which the hotline could not seem to answer... I have some DECstations which are servers, and by rights should be hooked to our VAX's cluster console. Alas, if I set the eeprom to have either of the serial ports be the console of the machine, it never manages to get to the ">>" prompt. Instead the self-test completes but instead of prompting me with ">>" so I can say "auto", it says ">> nn-nn-nn-nn-nn", where the nn's are my ethernet number, and incidentally one of the status messages that had just been sent to the display. Then it says ">>" folowed by the next status message, then the next, then the next, etc. To reproduce this, just set the environment variable and reboot... You'll have to disconnect all the cables and reboot a few times to get it to automagically go back to using the display as the console (:-)) Do the two machines have different boot roms, prechance? --dave -- David Collier-Brown, | davecb@Nexus.YorkU.CA, ...!yunexus!davecb or 72 Abitibi Ave., | {toronto area...}lethe!dave Willowdale, Ontario, | "And the next 8 man-months came up like CANADA. 416-223-8968 | thunder across the bay" --david kipling