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Re: SRM Problems

Subject: Re: SRM Problems
From: Rich Payne (rdp@talisman.alphalinux.org)
Date: Thu May 17 08:03:13 2001


On Tue, 15 May 2001, Hans Johnson wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have a DP264 system with 2 500MHz daughter cards. I am having a
> problem getting it to boot. When the system is turned on, the Video
> card (Elsa Gloria Synergy) initializes, but then I just get a single
> blinking cursor in the upper left of the screen.
>
> I had been using this machine for the past two years, and then I needed
> to do a reboot today. It was during this reboot that the problem
> started.
>
> Has anybody had any experience with such things? Any help would be
> greatly appreciated.

Press enter several times...it sounds like the console is set to serial
instead of graphics.

P00>>set console graphics
P00>init

should fix that.
 
> Regards,
> Hans J. Johnson
> hans-johnson@uiowa.edu
>
> PS: Do I need to update the SRM with the fail safe boot option? If so,
> any hints about doing this?

I would upgrade SRM w/o the fail safe boot....there's no reason to use FSB
unless the SRM installed is corrupted.

--rdp
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Rich Payne
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