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

[Scott Dorsey]

John Tran  <xxxdogmeatxxx at gmail.com> wrote:
>How do I go about connecting a serial connection?

Plug a serial terminal into the console port.  Note that some machines 
require a nonstandard pinout, so check the pinout before you plug the
terminal in.  Then unplug the VGA connector so that it will directly
go to the serial port as soon as it's turned on.

Our guess is that the machine begins to boot and along the way switches
to the serial port, which would be reasonable for a system that was 
originally configured for serial access.

Once you have a real console you can see what is going on.
--scott
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