[parisc-linux] Trouble booting a 710 (bushmaster)

[Richard Hirst]

On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 08:52:06PM +0000, Richard Hirst wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 10:17:24AM -0500, Jim Buttafuoco wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I have been trying to get my 2 9000/710's to boot for a couple of months
> > now.  Attached is the latest log file from my boot. 
> > 
> > The 2 problems that I see are the ramdisk is NOT seen and the BOOTP
> > fails.  I have used TCPDUMP to look at the packets coming and going from
> > the system.  All I see is the RBOOTP stuff.  The ramdisk is valid as far
> > as I can tell. (I mounted it via the loop fs).  Should it be compressed
> > with ZIP???.
> 
> 
> > SCSI subsystem driver Revision: 1.00
> > sim700: Couldn't get consistent shared memory
> > sim700: Configuring 53c700 (SCSI-ID 7) at f0825100, IRQ 86
> > scsi0: Revision 0x0
> > Post test1, istat 05, sstat0 00, dstat 81
> > sim700: WARNING IRQ probe failed, (returned 0)
> > scsi0: test 1 FAILED: dsps: exp 0xab93001d, got 0x00000000
> 
> You have problems with the scsi driver also.  dstat=81 says 
> "Illegal Instruction Detected", which implies the scsi chip cannot
> access memory properly.  If the network chip has the same problem,
> that would explain your other problems.  As you can load the kernel
> ok, I guess the h/w is ok and we are not setting something up
> correctly.  I have a 715/75 which uses the same scsi and network
> drivers; I'll try that in a while - havn't booted it for a month
> or so.

You'll be pleased to hear that the latest kernel has similar problems
on my 715/75.  I'm investigating.

Richard