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

RE: [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.

[parisc-linux] Firmware (was How to set serial ..)

[Sandy Harris]

Tom Gallagher wrote:

> ...  Before I managed to do this I upgraded it to the
> lastest firmware.

How does one do that?

Re: [parisc-linux] Firmware (was How to set serial ..)

[Michael Shalayeff]

Making, drinking tea and reading an opus magnum from Sandy Harris:
> Tom Gallagher wrote:
> 
> > ...  Before I managed to do this I upgraded it to the
> > lastest firmware.
> 
> How does one do that?
there is a bootable image somewhere on hp site.
one should boot either from spare disk or over the network.
the image itself will perform an upgrade.
one caution, it upgrades the graphics eprom as well and
changes the video mode.
the cure is to type blindly the boor_admin command to change to whatever
resolution one had before the upgrade.

cu

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