Re: AlphaServer 1000A 4/266 installation question
Hello Jim.
On 20 Jul 2000, Jim Crilly wrote:
> As the topic says I have an AlphaServer 1000A and am trying to install
> Debian on it. A few seconds and screen flickers after it starts booting
> the kernel from the rescue image I get kicked back to SRM with the error:
>
> halt code = 6
> double error halt
> PC = fffffc000031b24c
On my computer, an ancient jensen-class machine, I was able to solve a
similar situation by exchanging the memory. I was getting halt code 6
and something like dblchk. This problem was related to bit errors the
ECC could not handle (>= 2 bit I believe).
Please retry more often and see whether the given Numbers are constant
(I am no guru and have no clue wheather PC is memory related anyhow, but
my jensen was giving two numbers, the second of which only changed
when I permutated the simms).
I have no real clue whether the 1000A uses the same errorcodes, but I
think so.
Good luck!
Sebastian Moeller
P.S.: There was some discussion about memory on the redhat axp list I
think. The takehome message was: Use memory according to the bank-types in
regard to the used metall (-> gold in gold, tin in tin). And thre was a
dare-devils way to reactivate corroded simms usind an earaser.
Reply to: