From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from sj-core-5.cisco.com (sj-core-5.cisco.com [171.71.177.238]) by dsl2.external.hp.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E0D7B4829 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 00:03:18 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E7C0AB3.9000202@cisco.com> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 23:03:15 -0800 From: Christian Suder MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Subject: [parisc-linux] [Q] J200 recovery Sender: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org Errors-To: parisc-linux-admin@lists.parisc-linux.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: parisc-linux developers list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Hello, apologies upfront as this question is more about HW than parisc-linux, but as some pretty knowledgable folks hang out here I though I'll give it a shot. History of the problem: Got a J200, powered up fine but the firmware could not see the hard drive on the FW SCSI. It did find devices on the narrow SCSI. I also put in a known good drive on the FW, same thing. Both drives are HP supplied Seagates (HP firmware). Booted linux off CD and linux found the disk and could use it. Installation went with no problem, just could not boot off the HD. I could boot the system using the CD and changing root device and ramdisk in IPL. While troubleshooting the boot problem I set the fastboot off - bad idea ! Now the system stops with FLT 3000 early on. Googling around I found that this may be a corrupted bootrom, which in turn may not be a true flash memory in this machine (can anybody confirm this ?). The battery on the mainboard is pretty much dead, but a fresh one didn't change anything. Could it be the FLT 3000 is caused by the battery going dead and the system loosing some essential information ? Any way to recover it ? Thx, Christian