From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (IDENT:qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55])
	by puffin.external.hp.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA06475
	for <parisc-linux@puffin.external.hp.com>; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 04:17:45 -0700
Received: from pc188-bre9.cable.ntl.com (HELO rhirst.linuxcare.com) (213.105.88.188)
  by mailserv2.iuinc.com with SMTP; 22 Jan 2001 11:20:17 -0000
Received: by rhirst.linuxcare.com (Postfix, from userid 501)
	id 21B68B005; Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:10:40 +0000 (GMT)
Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2001 11:10:40 +0000
From: Richard Hirst <rhirst@linuxcare.com>
To: Jim Buttafuoco <jim@tylerdrive.org>
Cc: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com
Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Trouble booting a 710 (bushmaster)
Message-ID: <20010122111040.K3571@linuxcare.com>
References: <200101181517.f0IFHOs08538@openbsd1.buttafuoco.net> <20010118205206.B28638@linuxcare.com>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
In-Reply-To: <20010118205206.B28638@linuxcare.com>; from rhirst@linuxcare.com on Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:52:06PM +0000
List-ID: <linux-parisc.vger.kernel.org>

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:52:06PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:17:24AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been trying to get my 2 9000/710's to boot for a couple of months
> > now.  Attached is the latest log file from my boot. 
> > 
> > The 2 problems that I see are the ramdisk is NOT seen and the BOOTP
> > fails.  I have used TCPDUMP to look at the packets coming and going from
> > the system.  All I see is the RBOOTP stuff.  The ramdisk is valid as far
> > as I can tell. (I mounted it via the loop fs).  Should it be compressed
> > with ZIP???.
> 
> 
> > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> > sim700: Couldn't get consistent shared memory
> > sim700: Configuring 53c700 (SCSI-ID 7) at f0825100, IRQ 86
> > scsi0: Revision 0x0
> > Post test1, istat 05, sstat0 00, dstat 81
> > sim700: WARNING IRQ probe failed, (returned 0)
> > scsi0: test 1 FAILED: dsps: exp 0xab93001d, got 0x00000000
> 
> You have problems with the scsi driver also.  dstat=81 says 
> "Illegal Instruction Detected", which implies the scsi chip cannot
> access memory properly.  If the network chip has the same problem,
> that would explain your other problems.  As you can load the kernel
> ok, I guess the h/w is ok and we are not setting something up
> correctly.  I have a 715/75 which uses the same scsi and network
> drivers; I'll try that in a while - havn't booted it for a month
> or so.

You'll be pleased to hear that the latest kernel has similar problems
on my 715/75.  I'm investigating.

Richard