Alpha Core and AS 1200 Install ERRORS...

[Buck Rekow]

Balint Cristian wrote:

>On Friday 12 November 2004 07:15, Sidney A. Hawks wrote:
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>>Gentlemen,
>>
>>I have an Alpha Server 1200 5/533 EV56 with dual Alpha Processors and 768 MB
>>memory.  Redhat 7.2 installs without any issues after I updated the DAC960
>>raid card. I have/had (some/average) experience with Linux OS's over the
>>years but I can't fiqure out the problem I'm having with the Alpha Core
>>Install and thought I'd give you a chance.
>>
>>
>>The install process begins normally goes past the PAL code process, Loads
>>the kernel and then I get the following screen:
>>PS: I have no way to capture screen output so I have to keep switching
>>buttons on my masterview kvm switch, But it is word for word.
>>
>>---------------------------------------------------------
>>P000>boot dka500 
>>
>>
>>Initializing machine state
>>setting affinity to the primary cpu
>>jumping to bootstrap code
>>aboot: linux alpha SRM bootloader version 0.9b
>>aboot: switching to OSF/1 PALcode version 1.23
>>aboot: booting from device 'SCSI  1 1 0 5 500 6000 11000'
>>aboot: no disklabel found
>>iso: max size 307827 log zone size:2048
>>iso: first datazone:28  root inode number 57344
>>aboot: loading compressed /kernels/vmlinux.gz...
>>aboot: zero-filling 335640 bytes at )xfffffc000079baa8
>>aboot: loading initrd (4667345 bytes/4557 blocks) at )xfffffc004f9f8000
>>aboot: starting /kernels/vmlinux.gz  with arguments
>>
>>
>>halted CPU 0
>>
>>halt code=7
>>machine check while in PAL mode
>>PC = 16d5c
>>
>>Your system has halted due to an unrecoverable error. Record the error halt
>>code and PC and contact your digital services rep. In addition type INFO 3
>>and INFO 8 at the console and record the results.
>>boot failure
>>P000>
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>
>Hi, 
>  SMP seems to not work, this is a known issue, please hit Ctl-C in early srm console
>and set apropiate boot_osflags env parameter to load Uniprocesor kernel via aboot not the 
>SMP one. 
>
>~cristian
>  
>
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>>Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.
>>
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I have a smilar problem with my pc164.  The machine gives me a "670 
machine check" and tells me to hit the halt switch to return to SRM. I 
can hit the halt switch till i'm blue in the face, all it does is blink 
the keyboard LEDs. If I reset, IDE is not detected. I have to cold boot 
the machine every time, or it will not run.