From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailserv2.iuinc.com (qmailr@mailserv2.iuinc.com [206.245.164.55]) by puffin.external.hp.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id XAA26959 for ; Wed, 9 Jun 1999 23:07:19 -0600 Received: from thepuffingroup.com (IDENT:adevries@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by feather.thepuffingroup.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id BAA17654 for ; Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:07:59 -0400 Sender: adevries@feather.thepuffingroup.com Message-ID: <375F482D.E1E0B53D@thepuffingroup.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jun 1999 01:07:57 -0400 From: Alex deVries MIME-Version: 1.0 To: parisc-linux@thepuffingroup.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [parisc-linux] booting problems List-ID: Okay, I've committed a couple of fixes to make the building of the bootable image go a bit smoother. Thanks to John for his patch that doesn't require /dev/zero existing to create the sparse file. And now it passes the LIF magic and checksum, and dies. Here's a hand-typed copy of the console: " Main Menu: Enter command > boot p2 Interact with IPL (Y, N, or Cancel)?> n Booting... Network Station Address 001039-037944 System IP Address 192.168.1.56 Server IP Address 192.168.1.52 Boot IO Dependant Code (IODC) revision 2 SOFT Booted. " And then absolutely nothing. The cute little heart on the front panel is stuck on. According to the inside of the top cover (oh, what a great place to put debug info), this means: "System board fault, HPMC or Unknown fault". At this point I'm going for the third. Looks like we just need to compare a large chunk of the bootable binary to figure out what's happening. - Alex