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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 2:15 pm    Post subject: Alpha SRM problem Reply with quote

Hi,

I just got an alpha and I have kind of a problem getting it to do what I want. When I start it, SRM shows up, no problem there, then it tries to boot something and tells me to press CTRL+C to abort. I press CTRL+C, but it does on and on and never stops.

I read some tutorials, but they always assume you have the prompt in front of you ... well, I don't get to the prompt.

Does someone has an idea ? I would be very thankful.

Read you soon.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:00 pm    Post subject: Re: Alpha SRM problem Reply with quote

kloune wrote:
I just got an alpha and I have kind of a problem getting it to do what I want. When I start it, SRM shows up, no problem there, then it tries to boot something and tells me to press CTRL+C to abort. I press CTRL+C, but it does on and on and never stops.

I read some tutorials, but they always assume you have the prompt in front of you ... well, I don't get to the prompt.

Does someone has an idea ? I would be very thankful.


Sounds like you have auto_action set to "BOOT". In that case SRM tries to boot a system that is defined by other SRM variables. But as you said you should be able to stop the process and get back to the prompt by pressing Ctrl-C.

Without the prompt, well, there is little chance to get anything useful done as you might already have discovered :-)

Just top be sure - did you try to insert a gentoo live cd? maybe it just boots from there ;-) Then you could change the SRM variables from inside the live cd system.

Investigate *what* it is trying to boot and tell me. Though my knownledge of SRM is virtually non-existent, I have recently built a gentoo box on a "Personal Workstation 500a" (Miata).
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the fast answer,

Somehow it doesn't work when the mouse is plugged in, but as soon as i unplug the mouse it works again. I now did the firmware update using tftp, because all the CDs i tried didn't work.

I'm now starting my installation (finally)...

Hope it's go on better.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kloune wrote:
Thanks for the fast answer,

Somehow it doesn't work when the mouse is plugged in, but as soon as i unplug the mouse it works again. I now did the firmware update using tftp, because all the CDs i tried didn't work.

I'm now starting my installation (finally)...


Sure you did not plug them in the wrong ports (mouse->kbd, kdb->mouse)? I've seen this before ;-)


Well good luck, then!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 4:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

no, when i took out the mouse, there was a reaction from the system and the keyboard was working again. Now i just left the mouse on the side. And I'm already at my next nice problem, booted nicely and starting kernel got me a red screen :-)

Installing gentoo is somehow always funny on less common systems. Downloading an older iso.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

kloune wrote:
no, when i took out the mouse, there was a reaction from the system and the keyboard was working again. Now i just left the mouse on the side. And I'm already at my next nice problem, booted nicely and starting kernel got me a red screen :-)

Installing gentoo is somehow always funny on less common systems. Downloading an older iso.


Hm, I booted from 2004.3 and used the latest stage1 from the net. Worked nicely.

What does the red screen say?

It can also be the system monitor of however they used to call it. I enjoyed that one once when tampering with my srm_environment in a running kernel. Poof, off we go ;-)
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 29, 2005 5:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hi,

It says nothing, the screen just becomes red and everythig stops. No possibility to type anything. It doesn't really look like some fallback, like the prom on the sparcs.

I just booted the 2.4 kernel and that seems to work nicely. I'm compiling now.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 5:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hm, 2004.3 also was 2.4 (the non-smp at least), wasn't it?

Whatever. If it builds it's gotta be good :)

I'm running a 2.6 (vanilla) now. Just finished with xfce and stuff.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 7:17 pm    Post subject: Re: Alpha SRM problem Reply with quote

kloune wrote:
Hi,

I just got an alpha and I have kind of a problem getting it to do what I want. When I start it, SRM shows up, no problem there, then it tries to boot something and tells me to press CTRL+C to abort. I press CTRL+C, but it does on and on and never stops.

I read some tutorials, but they always assume you have the prompt in front of you ... well, I don't get to the prompt.

Does someone has an idea ? I would be very thankful.

Read you soon.


Most alpha's have a "stop" button on the chassis that will halt the CPU and drop you to the SRM prompt.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:23 am    Post subject: Re: Alpha SRM problem Reply with quote

Most alpha's have a "stop" button on the chassis that will halt the CPU and drop you to the SRM prompt.[/quote]

Mine has what used to be a reset button, but it apparently no longer works :D
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 7:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Thanks for the tip,

I have a PWS 433, I think I wouldn't have found it without knowing, it looks like a led and you have to push it using something, because it's too small, but it works.
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 10:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

kloune wrote:
Thanks for the tip,

I have a PWS 433, I think I wouldn't have found it without knowing, it looks like a led and you have to push it using something, because it's too small, but it works.


Yeah, I have a PWS 500a, so it's the same chassis. It used to work as a reset switch for me, but since I installed gentoo it no longer does anything :-)

I really don't care though. 8)
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