Re: sporatic failure to boot on sgi750

[Brian Szymanski <skibrianski@gmail.com>]

David Medberry wrote:

On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:21 -0400, Brian Szymanski wrote:
  

I'm having sporatic failures to boot on an sgi750 (2x733MHz Merced)
which I've recently obtained. Once the system is up, however, it's rock
solid, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. Also, the problem
occurs whether booting from CD or booting from the hard drive. If I try
to boot from the CD, the error looks like this:

CD:
Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file \initrd.gz... done
[ flashing cursor mocks me until i reboot ]

HD:
Uncompressing Linux... done
Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.gz... done
[ flashing cursor mocks me until i reboot ]

    

This is typical if the console is NOT where you think it was at.
You should see what CONSOLE= parameter is being passed in your elilo
config.

I'd guess that the working config has a different CONSOLE= than those
that don't work. You can also just run through different answers. (In
addition to the serial port being wrong, the baud could also be
wrong--try a variety 9600 and up.)
  

Sorry, I wasn't clear. This is VGA output -  I'm not using a serial console. The problem occurs about 1/2 the time, with the same boot media and no other changes.

PS - I also should have said reset, not reboot, as I have to power the system off and on after this happens - keyboard input seems to go to /dev/null at this point.

Thanks

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Brian Szymanski
email:  skibrianski@gmail.com