Hello,
Thanks all who replied.
Reiner Dassing
Udo de Boer
Hoai Tran
Uwe Lienig
Tom Blinn
This seems to be one of those problems which cant be solved in just one day
:-(
Some repliers pointed towards the Firmware revision which isnt uptodate.
You can get
a new firmware from the following adress:
ftp://ftp.digital.com/pub/Digital/Alpha/firmware/v6.1/as1200/
An other replier pointed towards broken hardware which causes the
interrupts. One could
analysis the corrupted hardware by replacing one card after the other.
I knew that the console had the information which i needed for debugging
the problem
but i thought i could get around what Tom Blinn wrote :
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The problem could be console firmware related. Since you don't
seem to have a complete serial console log of everything that
happened during this "shutdown / failed reboot" event, there is
NO WAY anyone can diagnose it.
If you want to get to the root of this, start running the system
with a serial console. Get something reliable, like a good PC
or another UNIX system, and set it up so it can control the 1200
through the slave system's serial console port. (You will need
to use a "null modem" serial cable hookup, and the master system
that will control the slave 1200 needs to run something like "tip"
on UNIX or a terminal emulator with logging facilities on Windoze.)
Set the slave system's console to "serial" in the SRM console and
do an "init". Boot the system, with logging in effect on the
master system. Then, the next time the 1200 fails to reboot, you
will have a full capture of what was happening both just before
the system went down (did it panic due to a hardware problem with
the boot disk? that might hang a reboot) and during the reboot,
and it will probably be pretty obvious what failed. Without this,
you're just guessing about what happened (because the system will
NOT log what happens in the console while a reboot is happening,
if there is a problem with the boot disk or swap disks, you may
not get a crash dump, and so on).
Tom
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I think we will go for that solution,
thanks again
Samier.
Received on Wed Nov 21 2001 - 11:08:49 NZDT