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

by Graham Gower :: Rate this Message:

Graham Gower wrote:

> Antoni Sawicki wrote:
>> Have you upgraded firmware to the latest version (I think it was 3.8)?
>> Sometimes it helps to flash again and reset all settings to factory
>> default.
>
> I'm unsure of how to do this without a floppy drive. But yes, I have an
> older firmware version (3.5-72).
>
>> Have you actually redirected SRM to the serial port by "set console
>> serial"?
>
> Is there a manual for SRM somewhere that I should know about?
> I just tried this and bad things happened.

Ok, the panic was actually caused by the network cable being unplugged during
dhcp (!!!).

In any event, 'set console serial' gives no different behaviour to before.

-Graham

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