[Sunhelp] Guru needed! Sparc20 died after move.
Wolfgang Engelien
wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
Sat Jul 15 09:35:36 CDT 2000
Hi,
thanks, I set the testarea value back to zero, but it
still stops the booting a little after telling me
"WARNING: clock gained 4 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!"
Any other ideas?
Thanks,
Wolfgang
>All
>
>Here is something I have seen cause problems.
>ok> printenv
>
>testarea 255 0
>
>I have not found out what this is for but on my sparc10 it caused the system
>not to boot.
>I would set it back to 0 unless someone has a good idea of it benign set at
>255. It appears that only sun4m systems
>have this.
>
>
>Wolfgang Engelien wrote:
>
>> Hello again,
>>
>> after turning the diag-switch to true it was
>> even to me clear that one cpu has problems.
>> After taking only that CPU out the POST runs
>> through flawless, but the booting from disk
>> or cdrom keeps hanging anyway. Any ideas?
>> (I used boot -r disk)
>> Thanks,
>> Wolfgang
>>
>> >Hello gurus,
>> >
>> >the subject says everything. A sparc20 died on me after
>> >moving it from one room to an other. There is no output
>> >through the monitor anymore. The attached message was
>> >gained through a tip connection on the serial port.
>> >I tried to clean the machine, take the CPUs out, put
>> >them in again, checked on the memory to be snugged in
>> >correctly, checked all cables to be attached correctly,
>> >checked the fans, hard drive and cdrom cabling ...
>> >I had a partial success as one time the machine at
>> >least tried to boot (with video output), but broke
>> >afterwards with a watchdog reset (Both from cdrom and
>> >from hard drive). Once powered off again the video
>> >output never came back again.
>> >
>> >What can I do to reanimate the machine to work again?
>> >Attached the console messages and the printenv output.
>> >
>> >Thanks for all hints,
>> >Wolfgang
>> >********************************************************
>> >
>> > SMCC SPARCstation 10/20 UP/MP POST version VR3.41 (09/06/94)
>> >
>> >
>> >CPU_#0 TI, TMS390Z55(3.x) 1Mb External cache
>> >CPU_#2 TI, TMS390Z55(3.x) 1Mb External cache
>> >
>> >CPU_#1 ******* NOT installed *******
>> >CPU_#3 ******* NOT installed *******
>> >
>> >
>> > >>>>> Power On Self Test (POST) is running .... <<<<<
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > <<< CPU_00000000 on MBus Slot_00000000 >>>
>> > ERROR : Address = 00000028,
>> > exp[31:00] = 00000000, obs[31:00] = c0000000, xor[31:00] = c0000000
>> > U-NUMBER : Suspect Viking Module
>> >Watchdog Reset
>> >Type help for more information
>> ><#0> ok printenv
>> >Parameter Name Value Default Value
>> >
>> >tpe-link-test? true true
>> >output-device screen:r1280x1024x76 screen
>> >input-device keyboard keyboard
>> >keyboard-click? false false
>> >keymap
>> >ttyb-rts-dtr-off false false
>> >ttyb-ignore-cd false true
>> >ttya-rts-dtr-off false false
>> >ttya-ignore-cd false true
>> >ttyb-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
>> >ttya-mode 9600,8,n,1,- 9600,8,n,1,-
>> >fcode-debug? false false
>> >local-mac-address? false false
>> >screen-#columns 80 80
>> >screen-#rows 34 34
>> >selftest-#megs 1 1
>> >scsi-initiator-id 7 7
>> >sbus-probe-list fe0123 fe0123
>> >auto-boot? true true
>> >watchdog-reboot? false false
>> >diag-file
>> >diag-device net net
>> >boot-file
>> >boot-device disk disk net
>> >silent-mode? false false
>> >use-nvramrc? false false
>> >nvramrc
>> >sunmon-compat? false false
>> >security-mode none none
>> >security-password
>> >security-#badlogins 0 <no default>
>> >oem-logo <no default>
>> >oem-logo? false false
>> >oem-banner <no default>
>> >oem-banner? false false
>> >hardware-revision <no default>
>> >last-hardware-update <no default>
>> >testarea 255 0
>> >mfg-switch? false false
>> >diag-switch? false false
>> ><#0> ok reset
>> >Resetting ...
>> >
>> >Watchdog Reset
>> >Type help for more information
>> ><#0> ok boot
>> >
>> >Watchdog Reset
>> ><#0> ok
>> >
>> >
>> >#####
>> ># Wolfgang Engelien
>> ># Tel.: +1 (212) 746 3724
>> ># Fax.: +1 (212) 746 5818
>> ># email: wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
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>> # Tel.: +1 (212) 746 3724
>> # Fax.: +1 (212) 746 5818
>> # email: wolfgang at hanazono.med.cornell.edu
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