• Re: Debian SID on Ultra 30

    From Dennis Clarke@21:1/5 to Stan Johnson on Wed Mar 29 19:30:01 2023
    On 3/28/23 18:50, Stan Johnson wrote:
    "Fast Data Access MMU Miss"

    Power down the machine to the firmware ok prompt. You should be able to
    do that with :

    shutdown -Hh 'now'

    The capital " H " should just halt the linux os and leave you as the prompt.

    Then do this :

    setenv diag-switch? true
    setenv auto-boot? false
    setenv verbosity max

    Then do printenv and check if the diagnostics verbosity is actually set
    to maximum. On the old Ultra 30 it may be named something else.

    Then issue the golden "power-off". Unplug it from the AC power.

    Go get a coffee.

    Then power on the unit and watch all the diagnostics happen.

    I do not recall the specifics of the Ultra 30 but if you issue this to
    the forth ok prompt :

    sifting post

    You will get a list of commands related to POST status. One of tham may actually be post-results or post-status. Issue that command.

    If the result looks sane then "setenv diag-switch? false" and boot the
    system as per normal.


    Just my thoughts from the distant memories.


    --
    Dennis Clarke
    RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
    UNIX and Linux spoken
    GreyBeard and suspenders optional

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