Problems with 5.3R on Ultra1 with Qlogic SBUS Controller

[Doug White]

On Wed, 13 Apr 2005, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2 Mar 2005, Doug White wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2005, Gheorghe Ardelean wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I am trying to boot my plain Ultra1 (not 1E) which is not supported "as
> > > is". So I put an Qlogic SBUS Diff SCSI controller (ISP1000) in it and a
> > > HDD on which I have preinstalled FreeBSD 5.3R ( on my Ultra 5 + Adaptec 2944).
> > >
> > > As soon as it detects the zs0 the boot process hangs.
> > > Has anybody any idea about what could cause this hang?
> >
> > I'm assuming  you're booting off serial console here... does booting off
> > the framebuffer work any better?
>
> It's better up to a point. So it boots up to the point where the login
> prompt should appear. After the information about the todays date and
> time an error message appears telling me that:
>
> /dev/screen no such file or directory
>
> Any idea why?

You need to run mergemaster. that should replace the lines in there and
enable gettys on your serial ports.

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