Re: 2.4.21 on alpha
On Wednesday 02 July 2003 05:28 pm, Craig Small wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0700, Chris Hecker wrote:
> > Writing to srm variables didn't work for me either (PC164),
> > nor somebody else who mailed me. It went from hard-hanging
> > the machine to just toasting the vga text mode but I could
> > still ssh in. Yet another reason I went back to MILO. :)
>
> I have a PC164SX and I'm using SRM and aboot. Do you find
> that it randomly wont reboot sometimes? I cannot off hand
> remember the error message but it says to press some key (like
> reset, but not the reset key) and only a power cycle fixes it.
>
> I've never been able to reliably reboot the alpha, leaving
> aside kernel not working type problems.
Sounds a lot like the problems I first had with my PC164LX.
Basically it couldn't halt without getting a machine check
error, and usually it wouldn't successfully reboot either.
That all apparently fixed itself when I flashed SRM from 5.1 up
to 5.8.
--
Kelledin
"If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does
it still cost four figures to fix?"
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