I want to watch all the things that take place when starting up my NeXTcube. I have a NeXT Laser Printer that appears not to power up at all so I want to see if any info during boot shows a possible issue. Not sure what that would be but I want to try and post findings here.
Anyway, I know to do the Command ~ at startup but what command do I now type to boot the system from the stock SCSI internal drive?
Thanks for the verbage I need to type. I did a search but can't find what command I need.
Thanks
TJ
*And, if you know what I am looking for to confirm Printer port is OK and sending command to printer to turn on, that would be sweet!
EDIT. OK, I did a command NeXT>b and she does boot but I need it to boot so it keeps this data on the screen so I can look at it. It goes to quick to the login screen. I can't really analyze stuff. Is there some command that I use to do it one return at a time so I can see each line? Or is there some log that should have this stuff? I have opened various logs but they have no data.
The complete admin guide is up on channelu. Startup and shutdown can be found here:
http://www.channelu.com/NeXT/NeXTStep/3.3/nsa/09_StartShut.htmld/index.html.The entire boot sequence is captured and should be in /usr/adm/messages. Did you look at this log file? 'np0' is the physical device and should show up during boot. 'lpd'/'printer' is the daemon process that serves it along with psd and some other needed utilities and gets started towards the end of boot. There are more log files in the /usr/adm area that may be of interest. Like 'lpd-errs'.
Configuration is through PrinterManager.app which should do useful things if the boot looks good.