Minifridge

[Jay Estabrook]

heviarti at puresimplicity.net wrote:
>   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. 
>   
If you mean "power cycle" and not just "reboot", then note that
this is often a symptom that the mobo 3.3v battery has gone dead,
as the console "setting" is recorded in memory that's backed by it.
Once replaced, ">>> set console graphics" should hold through
power cycles.

And a 4/233 could be any of a number of things, but it's certainly
old enough to have worn out the battery... ;-}

Once you can get it to SRM, ">>> show config" should tell us what
it really is...

>  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.
> -----Original Message-----
>
> From:  "Dialup Jon Norstog" <thursday at allidaho.com>
> Subj:  Re: Minifridge
> Date:  Fri Aug 20, 2010 8:28
> Size:  1K
> To:  Linux on Alpha processors <axp-list at redhat.com>
>
>
> 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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