Re: AlphaServer 800 Console

From: Hans Vlems (hvlems.dotweg_at_zonnet.nl)
Date: 08/04/04 

Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 20:00:23 +0200

"John H. Reinhardt" <jreinhardt@fuse.net> schreef in bericht
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> Hello everyone,
>
> I have recently come into possesion of a used AlphaServer 800.
> It's clean and, except for missing the top door which would cover the
> CD/floppy/control buttons, in very good shape. My problem is this -
> after I hook up a keyboard, mouse and monitor and power the system on,
> I don't get any console output. I get one beep (which, according to
> the user guide is normal), the video works because I get the S3Trio
> startup screen and I get the BIO startup but then the screen goes blue
> and the sursor sits in the upper left corner blinking at me. The disk
> drives spin up but don't attempt to boot (no surprise, they're fresh
> drives I installed). My thoughts are that the console variable is set
> to serial but I've hit return and used the keyboard while it was
> booting and it didn't re-direct the output to the graphics ports. Is
> there anything else I can do? I've ordered a cable to connect to the
> serial console (it's an MMJ) but it won't be here for 3 days or so and
> I'm looking for something I can do in the meantime.
>
> Thanks to all.
>
If you hook up a (PS/2) keyboard type :

set console graphics

Not sure whether you need to power cycle the system to make this setting
effective.
It involves some "blind" typing, but there's not much that can go wrong.

Hans