Re: Trouble rebooting Tyan Thunder K7 (S2462UNG)

jordan.breeding
2002-04-20T13:01:48Z

Hello,

Sorry about any duplicates of the last reply I sent
which might have gotten sent out, I am having to use
an online emailer right now and it seems to be
acting up.

Jordan Breeding
> Sorry that I did not explain myself better the first time.
> The other OSes on this machine _do_ initialize a
> cold boot. Here is how they _all_ reboot: screen
> immediately goes black, hd light comes on as
> memory is ECC checked, hd light goes off and BIOS
> post screen comes up (monitor is now on again),
> Adaptec SCSISelect screen comes up, BIOS issues
> single beep and boots into GRUB. This is the way
> that _all_ versions of linux reboot with _all_ reboot
> parameters: screen hangs (but still has text on it, ie.
> the reboot messages) for at least 15-30 seconds,
> screen then goes blank, hd light comes on but _not_
> for ecc check (during ecc check nothing is accessed
> except for memory) instead the system goes straight
> into SCSISelect once the screen goes blank and the
> hd light comes on (this is evident because during
> normal boot SCSISelect is the stage at which the hd
> light is on and each SCSI device is accessed in
> order), once SCSISelect has polled every id on the
> system it tries to hand back off to the BIOS which
> was apparently never initialized correctly during a
> Linux reboot since it issues a very weird series of
> eight or so BIOS beeps and then just sits there, the
> ecc memory is never polled, the BIOS post screen
> never comes up, the monitor never goes active
> again, the system is just hung at a black screen until
> I hard reboot it. Other OSes _do_ perform a reboot
> in which ecc memory is polled however, so that
> does not seem to be the problem here. Thanks for
> any more help anyone can offer.
>
> Jordan Breeding
> > On Fri, 2002-04-19 23:15:23 -0000, Jordan Breeding <jordan.breeding@attbi.com>
> > wrote in message
> >
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> > b2jlXi9TM0a+IKeYbO47lAEAAAAA@attbi.com>:
> > > I am having trouble getting a brand new Tyan Thunder K7 S2462UNG (the
> > > one with onboard SCSI) to reboot successfully using Linux. This board
> >
> > > FreeBSD do with this board, instead the text stays there for at least
> > > 15-20 seconds (maybe longer) then when it finally blanks the video and
> > > the monitor light begins to flash it goes straight into the Adaptec
> > > SCSISelect scan (I can tell because my HD light comes on and the CDROMs
> >
> > What is so uncommon? The board does use ECC RAM, so maybe the board's
> > BIOS / firmware needs this time to blank and check all the RAM. Maybe
> > othe OSes don't initiate a full "cold boot" but something that doesn't
> > make the board to re-initialize all the RAM...
> >
> > MfG, JBG
> >
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> >
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