Boot problems

From: Harald Beugler-Bell (hbell@amazon.de)
Date: Tue Apr 04 2000 - 03:07:42 PDT

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Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2000 12:07:42 +0200
From: Harald Beugler-Bell <hbell@amazon.de>
Subject: Boot problems

    I installed axp-suse linux 6.3 on an Alpha 1200 server and ran into
    "some" problems.

    1. The system does not boot from disk
    2. random system crashes

    Any help is welcome. See a more detailed description of problems below.

    Here some system data:
    Server: Alpha 1200, 2 CPUs (EV56), 768 MB memory
    Firmware: Version 5.6-4
    Controller: NCR53C810 (CD-ROM)
                    QLogicISP10X0 (hard disks)
    disk type (sda): DS-RZ10F-VW (9,1 GB)

    -------------------------------------------
    + to 1. The system does not boot from disk
    -------------------------------------------
    I created 6 partitions and changed the blocksize in /boot and / to 1024.
    a: /boot, b: /, c: swap, d: /usr, e: /var and f: /opt

    I installed Linux with the SMP-Kernel. Then I installed aboot with the
    command:
    # swriteboot -f1 /dev/sda1 /boot/bootlx

    I tried to boot:
    >> boot dkb0 -fi 2/boot/vmlinuz -flags root=/dev/sda2
    and
    >> boot dkb0 0
    ...setting the following line in aboot.conf:
     0:2/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda2"

    however boot stops with the message "kernel stack not valid halt"
    I reinstalled the kernel - same story. Did I miss something??

    ------------------------------
    + to 2. random system crashes
    ------------------------------
    (after boot from the installation CD ROM) I experience random system
    crashes with log messages I cannot interperet (see below). Might be
    related to problem 1 ??

    The kernel is the SMP Kernel for multi-processor systems. The packet
    kernmods.rpm is installed.

    from /var/log/messages:
    ....
    ^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@
    Apr 4 10:41:27 de-linus-2 kernel: ^IEV5 BC_TAG_ADDR^I^I^I=
    ffffff804c4f6fff
    Apr 4 10:41:27 de-linus-2 kernel: ^IEV5 EI_ADDR: Phys addr of Xfer^I=
    ffffff004c002f4f
    Apr 4 10:41:27 de-linus-2 kernel: ^IFill Syndrome^I^I^I=
    d200
    Apr 4 10:41:27 de-linus-2 kernel: ^IEI_STAT reg^I^I^I= fffffff005ffffff
    Apr 4 10:41:27 de-linus-2 kernel: ^ILD_LOCK^I^I^I^I= ffffff0000567d9f
    Apr 4 10:46:27 de-linus-2 syslogd 1.3-3: restart.

    Hari 

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