Re: Did I produce a brick of my PPC8200?
Hi there,
On 12 Jun, this message from Sven Lankes echoed through cyberspace:
> Here's an update of my situation.
>
> Resetting the nvram worked so I was able to reboot from
> the debian-install disks again.
>
> I read quite some pages on the topic I've found and
> tried again:
>
> 1. booted into debian-install and changed to the 2nd console
> 2. nvsetenv boot-device 'scsi/sd@0:0'
>
> my hd is not the original one but it is found by the
> kernel on the boot-disk as ibm scsi hd and it is
> id 0 on controller 0.
Aha... third-party hd, from IBM.... Try adding this also as your
boot-command:
nvsetenv boot-command "begin ['] boot catch 1000 ms cr again"
This will make the box retry booting, even if it fails because the disk
is not yet spun up and ready.
Also, just to make sure, is your HD set up to auto-spin up? I.e. you
need to hear it spin up as soon as power is applied. Some IBM drives
have a jumper that needs to be set in order for this to work.
If all this gets you nowhere, you might send along the exact type of
harddrive, so that I can look at the IBM specs and see if there is any
other weirdo jumper that needs to be set. With BigBlue's drives, you
never know.... they are good stuff, still ;-)
Cheers
Michel
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