Re: Enterprise 4000 setup

[romain@dolbeau.org (Romain Dolbeau)]

Bryan Schmidt <Bryan.Schmidt@area101.com> wrote:

> I am trying to setup an Enterprise 4000 server with 4 (166Mhz) CPU's and
> 1Gb memory but I cannot even get the setup kernel to start.  I do "boot
> cdrom" and get the following error.
> 
> Allocated 8 megs of memory at 0x40000000 for kernel
> Loading kernel version 2.4.27
> Loading initial ramdisk (3041649 bytes at 0x4700000 phys, 0x40C0000
> virt)...
> Remapping kernel... Illegal instruction

Could be anything, from unsupported to faulty hardware. I'd give a shot
at shuffling memory around, to see if one or more stick are faulty.
Also, try a complete HW check in the prom (there used to be a 'test-all'
command in the openboot console, maybe it's available on the E4000 ?)

good luck,

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Romain Dolbeau
<romain@dolbeau.org>