Subject: boot decstation 5000/120 stops after SCSI

From: Florian Lohoff <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 20:22:08 +0100

Hi,
i have a couple of problems installing on a Decstation 5000/120.
Having done this on a bunch of machines before i cant remember having
this kind of problem before 

Here is the console output ...

This DECstation is a DS5000/1xx
Loading R[23]00 MMU routines.
CPU revision is: 00000230
Instruction cache 64kb
Data cache 64kb
Linux version 2.2.10 (root@elrond) (gcc version egcs-2.90.27 980315 (egcs-1.0.2 release)) #2 Sun Sep 19 17:51:32 MEST 1999
Calibrating delay loop... 19.79 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14460k/16380k available (1232k kernel code, 428k data)
Checking for 'wait' instruction...  unavailable.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
TURBOchannel rev. 1 at 12.5 MHz (no parity)
Linux NET4.0 for Linux 2.2
Based upon Swansea University Computer Society NET3.039
NET4: Unix domain sockets 1.0 for Linux NET4.0.
NET4: Linux TCP/IP 1.0 for NET4.0
IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP
Starting kswapd v 1.5 
DECstation Z8530 serial driver version 0.03
tty00 at 0xbc100001 (irq = 4) is a Z85C30 SCC
tty01 at 0xbc100009 (irq = 4) is a Z85C30 SCC
tty02 at 0xbc180001 (irq = 4) is a Z85C30 SCC
tty03 at 0xbc180009 (irq = 4) is a Z85C30 SCC
loop: registered device at major 7
SCSI ID 7  Clock 25 MHz CCF=0 Time-Out 167 NCR53C9x(esp236) detected
ESP: Total of 1 ESP hosts found, 1 actually in use.
scsi0 : ESP236
scsi : 1 host.
  Vendor: QUANTUM   Model: FIREBALL_TM2110S  Rev: 300X
  Type:   Direct-Access                      ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi disk sda at scsi0, channel 0, id 0, lun 0
  Vendor: DEC       Model: RRD42   (C) DEC   Rev: 4.3d
  Type:   CD-ROM                             ANSI SCSI revision: 02
Detected scsi CD-ROM sr0 at scsi0, channel 0, id 2, lun 0

Here the output/boot stop suddenly - Nothing happens - Waited for
at least 10 Minutes - Does somebody have an idea ? 

Flo
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