loan@Neon.Stanford.EDU (James P. Loan) (02/28/91)
I am having trouble booting our 2400T workstation. It was running
fine, and sitting unused for several days. At some point it just
stopped: the console went blank and we couldn't login remotely.
I reset the machine and tried booting again ("b" from the "iris>"
prompt). It starts to boot, gives the "Loading: hd.0:defaultboot"
message, then after a few more lines, the
"Jumping to loaded program @ 20000400" message, then hangs right there.
I tried to boot off a tape, following the directions in the manual,
but it hung at the same point after seeming to load the tape correctly.
Does anyone know what might be the problem?
Thanks much,
pete loan
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In article <1991Feb27.200643.10956@Neon.Stanford.EDU> loan@Neon.Stanford.EDU (James P. Loan) writes: >I am having trouble booting our 2400T workstation. It was running >fine, and sitting unused for several days. At some point it just >stopped: the console went blank and we couldn't login remotely. >I reset the machine and tried booting again ("b" from the "iris>" >prompt). It starts to boot, gives the "Loading: hd.0:defaultboot" >message, then after a few more lines, the >"Jumping to loaded program @ 20000400" message, then hangs right there. >I tried to boot off a tape, following the directions in the manual, >but it hung at the same point after seeming to load the tape correctly. >Does anyone know what might be the problem? Uh oh. I had a similar problem when I bought my 2400T a few months ago. The machine would come up under the boot prom, load the system, jump, and go blank. It turns out that the boot code uses a different video path than the operating system; in particular, the boot code will still work if the frame buffer / GE card GF2 is bad. The fix, of course, is to get a new GF2 board... -=Paul Flaherty, N9FZX | "Think of it as evolution in action." ->paulf@shasta.Stanford.EDU | -- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle