[parisc-linux] How to set serial console on 712 (fwd)

[Tom Gallagher]

I seem to have managed to set my console on my 712 to be neither serial
or graphics.  When HPUX boots it seems to detect the console is serial
and I get a login prompt and console messages on my serial terminal, but
it is not really the console as I see no messages from ISL etc on the
serial port.
I think I incorrectly typed the console path when I changed it :( .

The machine boots fine and I can telnet to it etc, but I have no way of
accessing the PDC/ISL.  Before I managed to do this I upgraded it to the
lastest firmware.

Is there some HPUX (10.20) command or trick to alter PDC? ISL?
information to reset my console to a sane state?

I have tried unplugging the keyboard/disks/LAN pretty much everything
really to try to reset it to some factory default.

Thanks.

From Tom

(PS Not strictly on topic, but I would really like to assist in the PA
RISC port as a tester etc and I cannot do this without access to
console!).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matt Taggart [mailto:taggart@rascal.fc.hp.com]
> Sent: Thursday, December 23, 1999 9:35 PM
> To: MaShaun Jones
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox; bkatz@agilent.com; parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
> Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] How to set serial console on 712 (fwd) 
> 
> 
> 
> MaShaun Jones writes...
> 
>  >Is there a way to use a serial console with a 715 however?
> 
> As someone mentioned previously, just unplug the keyboard. 
> Almost all HP-PA 
> workstations will go to serial if they can't find a keyboard. 
> The only one 
> I know of that doesn't is the 712. If you want to force an HP-PA 
> workstation to serial(even if a keyboard is plugged in) then set the 
> console path in the firmware. It varies by machine but it's 
> usually pretty 
> easy. The "help" command should give you an example for the 
> machine you're 
> on. The 712 was purposely obfuscated so people wouldn't use 
> serial console.
> 
> -- 
> Matt Taggart
> taggart@fc.hp.com
> 
> 
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