Re: DEC Multia VX40 - missing login on serial port, shutdown strangeness

> Hello list,
>
> I recently acquired an old DEC Multia VX40. No floppy, no cdrom, broken
> netboot, cpu heatsink works for frying eggs. Installation via
> $ dd if=floppy44.fs of=/dev/rsd0c
> from another machine worked a treat and now I have a working system.
>
> However, I cannot figure out how to get a login prompt on the serial
> port. If I boot the system without keyboard/monitor attached, then the
> SRM console appears on the serial port and kernel messages also get
> through. In order to do the installation I had to attach a keyboard and
> monitor - at the end of the installation I said yes to console on com0.
>
> I've tried adding various lines in /etc/ttys with no avail. I can get
> a login on the monitor using ttyC0, but no luck with ttyB0 or tty00.
>
> Now, if I login via the keyboard/monitor, I can type 'halt' and get
> back to the SRM console. However reboot and shutdown fail to do either.
> They tell me about /etc/rc.shutdown being run and then finishing, but
> then hang. A ^C sometimes gets me back to the shell.
>
> With the keyboard unplugged and a serial cable attached, no combination
> of halt/reboot/shutdown gets me a power down or SRM console on the
> serial port.
>
> Anyone still running OpenBSD on a multia? I see some messages in the
> archives regarding PCMCIA - did anyone ever get this going?
>
> -Graham
>
>
> Unrecognized boot flag '0'.
> [ using 589496 bytes of bsd ELF symbol table ]
> consinit: not using prom console
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> OpenBSD 4.4-current (GENERIC) #1457: Tue Sep  9 21:33:12 MDT 2008
>    deraadt@...:/usr/src/sys/arch/alpha/compile/GENERIC
> (PCI ISA), 167MHz
> 8192 byte page size, 1 processor.
> total memory = 33554432 (32768K)
> (2351104 reserved for PROM, 31203328 used by OpenBSD)
> avail memory = 22716416 (22184K)
> mainbus0 at root
> cpu0 at mainbus0: ID 0 (primary), LCA-2 (21066 pass 2)
> lca0 at mainbus0
> pci0 at lca0 bus 0
> siop0 at pci0 dev 6 function 0 "Symbios Logic 53c810" rev 0x01: isa irq
> 11
> scsibus0 at siop0: 8 targets, initiator 7
> sd0 at scsibus0 targ 3 lun 0: <DEC, RZ26L (C) DEC, 442D> SCSI2 0/direct
> fixed
> sd0: 1001MB, 512 bytes/sec, 2050860 sec total
> sio0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0 "Intel 82378IB ISA" rev 0x03
> de0 at pci0 dev 8 function 0 "DEC 21040" rev 0x23, DEC 21040 pass 2.3:
> isa irq 14, address 08:00:2b:e4:32:bf
> unknown vendor 0x0047 product 0x0280 (class network subclass
> miscellaneous, rev 0x47) at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
> tga0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0 "DEC 21030" rev 0x02: DC21030 step B,
> board type T8-02
> tga0: 1024 x 768, 8bpp, Bt485 RAMDAC
> tga0: interrupting at isa irq 10
> wsdisplay0 at tga0 mux 1: console (std, vt100 emulation)
> unknown vendor 0x0087 product 0x0280 (class network subclass
> miscellaneous, rev 0x87) at pci0 dev 12 function 0 not configured
> isa0 at sio0
> isadma0 at isa0
> com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8/8 irq 4: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8/8 irq 3: ns16550a, 16 byte fifo
> pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60/5
> pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
> pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
> wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard, using wsdisplay0
> pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
> midi0 at pcppi0: <PC speaker>
> spkr0 at pcppi0
> lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc/4 irq 7
> fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0/6 irq 6 drq 2
> mcclock0 at isa0 port 0x70/2: mc146818 or compatible
> stray isa irq 3
> stray isa irq 4
> softraid0 at root
> siop0: target 3 now using tagged 8 bit 10.0 MHz 8 REQ/ACK offset xfers
> root on sd0a swap on sd0b dump on sd0b