[Info-vax] Issue with booting and/or seeing the SYSBOOT prompt

[John Tran]

On Sunday, October 24, 2021 at 1:02:58 PM UTC-3, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-10-24, John Tran <xxxdog... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> > 
> > Sorry, no VT terminal and no VSI support. :( 
> > 
> > I have a laptop and I could install a terminal emulator. I do not know how to connect to the RX2600.
> Are you saying you do not have a serial cable and don't know how 
> to make one up ? 
> 
> Are there any serial cables you can borrow ?
> Simon. 
> 
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The laptop does not have a serial port. I have USB to serial (M) and a F-to-F crossover cable. I plugged that into the Console serial port (serial port A).

I use Van Dyke CRT terminal emulator and configured it for 9600 baud, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, XON/XOFF flow control, VTxxx emulation. This was from notes my predecessor left. I don't know if I have connected to right port or not on the RX2600. Should I disconnect the KVM?

Anyways I rebooted and nothing is showing.

Under Boot Options there is the selecting the consoles for Input, Output and Error. I do not see any new entries for my laptop.