Re: sporatic failure to boot on sgi750
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.)
-dave
> Only difference is the path to initrd.gz. Debian etch 4r3 and 4r4 boot
> cds both have the same problem. There doesn't seem to be any rhyme or
> reason I can discern to the failures, which occur on 1/2 to 2/3 of
> boots. It looks like the same problem as:
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=470707
>
> Is anyone else having this problem? I know it's a long shot to ask here,
> but does anyone know of a workaround for this issue or have other ideas
> or URLs with information besides the bug report?
>
> Thanks!
> Brian Szymański
>
>
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