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 6AE294830 for ; Sat, 22 Mar 2003 11:46:24 -0700 (MST) Message-ID: <3E7CAF7C.9070300@cisco.com> Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2003 10:46:20 -0800 From: Christian Suder MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Derek Engelhaupt Cc: parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] [Q] J200 recovery References: <20030322075214.87940.qmail@web12502.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed 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: Thanks Derek, might have been just coincidence that the fault showed after I switched the fastboot. The machine was a freebie so no big deal. Christian Derek Engelhaupt wrote: > Christian, > > It doesn't sound good for you. If the boot ROM battery went completely > dead, things like the Software ID, system model number, and system > serial number would be gone. The only way to recover those things is > through an HP tech like myself, but without a service contract the T&M > charges are pretty high. There is a program we run that allows us to > reset that information. The program is not licenced to anyone to run, > not even resellers. HP sued a bunch of companies about 5 years ago for > using it to convert older HP UNIX hardware to MPE hardware. The > hardware checks to make sure it has a valid serial number and model > number before booting, but from what I remember about cases like this it > should still get to the boot handler and not fail so early in the > self-test. Init 3000 is one of the first stages of the self test where > the machine starts applying power. It almost sounds like you have > either a system board failure or someth ing wrong in the power > sub-systems. All the fastboot option does is turn the extensive memory > tests on or off. Setting it off would cause the machine to run all the > extra memory tests instead of just initializing the memory as with > fastboot on. If you encountered a fault there the fault code would be > in the 7xxx range. A corrupted boot ROM could cause this to happen with > the hang at init 3000 since the boot ROM tells the system how to run the > self tests. Unfortunately on HP 9000 systems, once the boot ROM is > corrupted, only the factory can reload it which requires us to do a > system card replacement. Bottom line is, looks like the system card is > dead and needs to be replaced. This would require an HP tech to reset > the info mentioned earlier on the new system card once installed. > > derek > > */Christian Suder /* wrote: > > 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 > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > parisc-linux mailing list > parisc-linux@lists.parisc-linux.org > http://lists.parisc-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/parisc-linux > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Platinum > > - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop > ! >