From: Liudvikas Bukys (bukys@cs.rochester.edu)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 21:30:56 EDT
OF COURSE [sound of hand slapping forehead].
The correct answer to my boot problem query came from Iain Barker,
see below.
- The machine is OK after all.
- The used chassis must have belonged to AOL at one time.
- They had set console serial and set ocp_text "AOL spider-WN07".
- So I set console graphics and set ocp_text and I'm good to go.
Thanks, Iain.
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is the replacement new? possible secondhand?
what do you see on the video? just two lines of text at the top?
it sounds like someone might have changed the OCP_text string on
SRM to display the "AOL spider-WN07" string. And if it was set to
console mode then you would only see blue video with two lines
of text.
if you connect a serial terminal to com1 you should be able to
get to SRM prompt. then you can set ocp_text to a new string.
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From: Liudvikas Bukys [mailto:bukys@cs.rochester.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, 03 June, 2003 15:35
To: tru64-unix-managers@ornl.gov
Cc: bukys@cs.rochester.edu
Subject: boot problem: "AOL spider-WN07"
I have an AlphaServer 4100 that stopped booting.
Initially it would die with "Starting Console..."
in the LCD display. (Normally, the next step after
this in the boot sequence is "Starting CPU 3".)
Sometimes, however, it would go a little further,
complete its "graphics init", and then report
power-on diagnostic failures for IOD0 and IOD1
(interfaces between backplane and PCI bus).
I discovered that the IOD0/1 card is very locked in
mechanically, so I just bought a whole new chassis
(including backplane, IOD0/1 and PCI cage).
NOW my boot gets further, but stops with an error
message in the LCD display "AOL spider-WN07". It
does this regardless of what cards I insert or omit
from the PCI cage. I would suspect that my whole
PCI cage is still incommunicado, EXCEPT that after
"graphics init" I do get some AlphaServer text
displayed on the video out (through the Number9 video
card).
Tomorrow I am going over to my used equipment vendor
with a CPU card in hand, and will try selecting another
chassis.
But does anyone know what "AOL spider-WN07" means,
or does anyone have any other suggestions?
Liudvikas Bukys
University of Rochester
Computer Science Department
734 Computer Studies Building
Rochester, NY 14627-0226
tel# 585-275-7747
fax# 585-273-4556
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