Re: Minifridge

Hevi sounds to me as if the hardware is **not** all right. That biz of losing
its memory after a shutdown ...   A good thing to do is plug the box in and
let it simmer for a week to warm up the chipset. 

jn

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From: <[email protected]>
To: Linux on Alpha processors <[email protected]>, Linux on Alpha processors
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Sent: Fri, 20 Aug 2010 15:04:00 -0600
Subject: Re: Minifridge

> Well, I do know a little about SRM, and I've fought with this one 
> some. I can't get it to maintain the setting for video output. 
> Console is always serial after a reboot.
> 
>  The only model info is 82-PB76B-01
> 
>   I've had this thing sitting under my kitchen table for a year 
> because I can't get into it. I tried about six different 
> possibilities for getting it into single user mode, and then CTRL-C 
> stopped working to get me into SRM.  So now I don't know how I'm 
> going to get access to the OS...  -fl s doesn't seem to do it, 
> neither did -fl single, -fl 1, -fl S, -fl init=1, or -fl 
> init=single.  I have a VT, but my MMJ cable is no more. It was at my 
> mother's house, and she threw it away thinking it was an extra phone 
> cord.
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> 
> From:  "Dialup Jon Norstog" <[email protected]>
> Subj:  Re: Minifridge
> Date:  Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:28
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> To:  Linux on Alpha processors <[email protected]>
> 
> Hevi,
> 
> assuming the Tru64 installation is still OK and the hardware is good,
>  everything you need to know you can find out from the console:
> 
> "sh b*"
> 
> will give you the boot device, parameters, and options.
> 
> If you can't get a screen, turn the box on and type "control c" like 
> mad while the disks are spinning up.
> 
> good luck
> 
> jn
> 
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> Sent: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 23:43:00 -0600
> Subject: Minifridge
> 
> > I'll get a read on it when I get up in the morning. I think it's a 
> > 4/233. Old enough it still says 'Digital' but new enough It says 
> > 'Alpha Generation'
> > 
> >   One of these days I've gotta get a 164 or 264 superfridge....
> > 
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