Re: Status of port-newsmips?

Izumi Tsutsui <[email protected]> Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:04:19 +0900 (JST)
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.newsmips
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In article <a05100307b9a390e52605@[10.0.0.10]>
[email protected] wrote:

> 	Can the machine boot out of a CDROM?

Probably not, but booting from floppy is enough to install.
(but it's better to clean up floppy drives before boot ;-)

> 	I've tried configuring its jumpers (Ex: setting jumpers 1 to 
> 3 to off, which should mean use serial port according tot he FAQ), 
> then connected a serial cable between my computer and the NEWS box 
> and nothing happened.   I also tried adding a null modem and still 
> had the same result. =(

Maybe NVRAM in your machines is dead. If so, you can try the same
procedure with news68k:
http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/news68k/faq.html#dead_nvram
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Izumi Tsutsui
[email protected]