Date: Mon, 22 Jan 90 09:44:10 EST From: Dwight D. McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V2 #3 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Mon, 22 Jan 90 Volume 3 : Issue 3 Today's Topics: anyone had a sun-2 fail in the following way and know what's wrong? +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home \ @orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu | | Requests: suns-at-home-request > -- or -- | | Archives: suns-at-home-archives / ...rutgers!pur-ee!... | +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 90 15:06:51 CST From: Simon Hackett Subject: anyone had a sun-2 fail in the following way and know what's wrong? To: suns-at-home@orchestra.ecn.purdue.edu Hi all. I have a sun2/120 with a MaxStor-1140 disk, an archives tape drive, one 4mb ram board, two 1mb ram boards, and a couple of scsi controller boards. (all except the 1mb ram boards are installed in the chassis) The trouble is that while I was away for a few weeks, the box stopped working (during quite normal operations, according to friends using it at the time), and it now won't boot up properly. What happens is that it boots normally up to and including the using n buffers containing y bytes of memory message, then hangs, totally silently - no error messages, no disk activity. Most curious. The system passes startup diags ok, I can boot stand/diag and exercise the disk with no problems, I can load mini-unix from tape into swap, and try to boot that, and it halts at exactly the same place - just after the buffers line. I think the next thing which should happen is that the rc files start executing. I'm not sure if there isn't something else in the middle. I have tried pulling the second scsi board and the archives controller, no change. I tried removing the 4MB ram board and re-installing the two 1mb boards. The memory is recognized fine on startup, but the system stops at just the same point during startup. H E L P! I'll owe anyone with any ideas on this a cookie! (or a geniune Australian beer!) Simon -- {----------------------------------------------------------------------------} { Simon Hackett, Communications/Systems, University of Adelaide, Australia } { E-mail: simon@sirius.ua.oz.au Phone: (Australia) 08 228 5669 } {----------------------------------------------------------------------------} ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************