Terminal Type and garbage printer to the screen during install

[Andrew Lubeck]

I am getting the following message while trying to do a fresh 11.23 install from a dumb terminal attached to an L1000 machine. I am booting to the install DVD:

"The console firmware terminal type is currently set to "vt100". If you are using any other type of terminal you will see "garbage" on the screen following this message.

If this is the case, you will need to either change the terminal type set in the firmware via GSP (if your GSP firmware version supports this feature), or change your terminal emulation to match the firmware. In either case you will need to restert if your terminal and the firmware type do not match."

Any ideas on how to change the setting? When logged in to the host(currently running 11.11) through the console, highlighted text shows up with garbage characters before and after it. I can change the terminal type to "hp" by setting the TERM variable in the shell and the man pages look normal.

How do I do this in the firmware so that the install menus look normal?

Thanks,

Andy

[Torsten. · Accepted solution]

The L1000 cannot change the terminal emulation (only EFI based systems can do this).

You need to change it on your emulation software!

"change your terminal emulation to match the firmware"

example:

If you are using hyperterminal, you need to go to

File->Properties->setting

and change the emulation to vt100.

In case of the old HP terminal, emulation type EM100 should be fine.

[Josiah Henline]

You can change the terminal emulation on PARISC systems depending on the GSP revision. I had to do this a few months ago so that I could use my laptop.

Do a "control-b", "he", then look for the terminal/modem setup.

[Torsten.]

OK, PA-RISC systems GSPs can also change the terminal type, but not yours.

It looks like this after you switch to the console:


Entering Virtual Front Panel

Select terminal type:
[1] hpterm, 70092, 70094, 2392
2 vt100, vt220, ansii, xterm

You still have to set the apropriate setting in your terminal emulation on the client.

[Andrew Lubeck]

Right after I posted this I went back to the lab. I went into the terminal video settings screen to see if I was missing something. I saw that the display type was set to HP. I changed the terminal type to EM100 on a whim (hey, it's kind of like vt100!). And it worked. It's an ancient terminal, BTW.

I came back to find Torsten's response. Good call Torsten! Thanks!

Andy