HP-UX 10.20 install problem

[terrywashington]

I am attempting to install HP-UX 10.20 on a C160L with a blank hard drive. The system does not have a suitable video card so I am running the console through the serial port and viewing it on my PC via hyperterm. I boot off the CD-ROM, get a notification that the console is the serial interface and then get a message that a PS/2 DIN interface has been detected. I am prompted to select a keyboard language to use the keyboard. At this point keystrokes are no longer recognized within the hyperterm session and I can get no further. I do not have a keyboard or mouse connected to the system as both had to be disconnected to force the console display to the serial port. There are no broken pins in either the mouse or keyboard ports. I have attached the console messages. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

Firmware Version 4.1

Duplex Console IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 1

Memory Test/Initialization Completed

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(c) Copyright 1995-1998, Hewlett-Packard Company, All rights reserved
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Processor Speed State Coprocessor State Cache Size
--------- -------- --------------------- -----------------
0 160 MHz Active Functional 64 KB
1 MB ext


Available memory (bytes) : 268435456
Good memory required (bytes): 268435456

Primary boot path: FWSCSI.4.0
Alternate boot path: SESCSI.6.0
Console path: GRAPHICS(0)
Keyboard path: PS2

Processor is booting from first available device.

To discontinue, press any key within 10 seconds.

Boot terminated.


------- Main Menu -------------------------------------------------------------

Command Description
------- -----------
BOot [PRI|ALT|<path>] Boot from specified path
PAth [PRI|ALT|CON|KEY] [<path>] Display or modify a path
SEArch [DIsplay|IPL] [<path>] Search for boot devices

COnfiguration [<command>] Access Configuration menu/commands
INformation [<command>] Access Information men
SERvice [<command>] Access Service menu/commands

DIsplay Redisplay the current menu
HElp [<menu>|<command>] Display help for menu or command
RESET Restart the system
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Main Menu: Enter command > bo sescsi.2.0
Interact with IPL (Y, N, Q)?> n

Booting...
Boot IO Dependent Code (IODC) revision 150


HARD Booted.

ISL Revision A.00.38 OCT 26, 1994

ISL booting hpux (;0):INSTALL

Boot
: disk(8/16/5.2.0.0.0.0.0;0)
3462652 + 315392 + 305120 start 0x1b82e8
vuseg=1b90000

System Console is on the Built-In Serial Interface
Networking memory for fragment reassembly is restricted to 23343104 bytes
Swap device table: (start & size given in 512-byte blocks)
entry 0 - auto-configured on root device; ignored - no room
WARNING: No dump device configured. Dump is disabled.
Starting the STREAMS daemons.
B2352B HP-UX (B.10.20) #1: Fri Jun 7 09:26:45 PDT 1996

Memory Information:
physical page size = 4096 bytes
Physical: 262144 Kbytes, lockable: 192872 Kbytes, available: 221876 Kbytes

======= HP-UX Installation Initialization. (Mon Jun 10 03:04:39 EDT 1996)
@(#) install/init (opt) $Revision: 5.30 $
* EISA configuration has completed. Following the completion of a
successful HP-UX installation, please check the &quot;/etc/eisa/config.err&quot;
file for any EISA configuration messages.
* Scanning system for IO devices...
* Setting keyboard language.

A PS/2 DIN interface has been detected on this system.
In order to use a keyboard on this interface, you must specify
a language mapping which will be used by X windows and
the Internal Terminal Emulator (ITE).
The characters &quot;1234567890&quot; will appear as &quot;!@#$^&*()&quot;
on keyboards that use the shift key to type a number.
Your choice will be stored in the file /etc/kbdlang


1) PS2_DIN_Arabic 2) PS2_DIN_Belgian
3) PS2_DIN_Bulgarian 4) PS2_DIN_Canada_TBITS-3
5) PS2_DIN_Canadian_French 6) PS2_DIN_Czech
7) PS2_DIN_Danish 8) PS2_DIN_Euro_Spanish
9) PS2_DIN_French 10) PS2_DIN_German
11) PS2_DIN_Greek 12) PS2_DIN_Hebrew
13) PS2_DIN_Hungarian 14) PS2_DIN_ITF_Danish
15) PS2_DIN_ITF_Euro_Spanish 16) PS2_DIN_ITF_Finnish
17) PS2_DIN_ITF_French 18) PS2_DIN_ITF_German
19) PS2_DIN_ITF_Italian 20) PS2_DIN_ITF_Japanese
21) PS2_DIN_ITF_Korean 22) PS2_DIN_ITF_Norwegian
23) PS2_DIN_ITF_Swedish 24) PS2_DIN_ITF_Swiss_French
25) PS2_DIN_ITF_Swiss_German 26) PS2_DIN_ITF_T_Chinese
27) PS2_DIN_ITF_UK_English 28) PS2_DIN_ITF_US_English
29) PS2_DIN_Italian 30) PS2_DIN_JIS
31) PS2_DIN_Korean 32) PS2_DIN_Norwegian
33) PS2_DIN_Polish 34) PS2_DIN_Romanian
35) PS2_DIN_Russian 36) PS2_DIN_S_Chinese
37) PS2_DIN_SerboCroatian 38) PS2_DIN_Slovak
39) PS2_DIN_Swedish 40) PS2_DIN_Swiss_French2
41) PS2_DIN_Swiss_German2 42) PS2_DIN_T_Chinese
43) PS2_DIN_Turkish 44) PS2_DIN_UK_English
45) PS2_DIN_US_English

Enter the number of the language you want:

 

[dalexander]

Tdub,

Stop the system from booting, and when you are at the
&quot;Main Menu&quot; prompt,
type &quot;help path&quot;

it shoud display a way to change the keybd path to to the serial port...

 

[CodeMonke]

I'm having the same problem trying to install on a B180L via serial console. I get the prompted with the same question durring install though. I know the null modem cable works becasue I can interact with the boot prompt just fine. My problem however, is I cant set the keyboard path to anything besides PS2. I get this message:

ERROR: That path is not valid for that use. Your path has not been changed.
Possible paths are:
PS2

Main Menu: Enter command >

Any ideas?

 

[fordka]

Did anyone overcome this problem? I'm trying to do an HPUX 11 install on a d210 using a PC via the serial console. I get to roughly the same place when the machine asks me to identify which type of serial console I'm using and offers me three options, none of which I can select as the HP box appears to have dropped the DTS/DTR signal and wont accept anything I type.. It cant be the cable as it allows me to interact with the menus etc earlier on , or can it? I'm tearing my hair out here! Any one solved this?