Re: crashed alpha, strange error message

amazing how emails can get lost sometimes. especially when ones mailserver
has been down for three weeks! sorry for the long overdue reply.

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Stefan Reinauer wrote:

> * [email protected] <[email protected]> [021008 22:17]:
> > my UP1000 recently crashed, or to be more exact it stopped answering SSH
>
> > now i've tried various boot options to get something running, booting (SRM
> > and aboot) off floppy as well as disk, but the kernel doesn't seem to
> > start up at all. all i get is, when booting from disk, this message on
> > the console (serial, no graphics card on this machine):
>
> > TU PCI Bus Error :CSR5: ffffffff
>
> which kernel are you running on that machine? Have you tried to remove
> the pci cards? It sounds like some hardware errors.

kernel built from the suse 2.4.4 src, as i can't get 2.4.18 to run for
more than a few days at a time. what's other peoples experience of
different (recent-ish) kernels?

i got the machine back up again -> by plugging in a graphics card (agp) i
could see the kernel output, it was simply in disk recovery mode and
needed a bit of tender care.
now all is fine, RAID and filesystem recovered, though there are two
things i don't understand...:

1 why can't i get kernel console output on my serial connection with
console=ttyS0 ?? SRM comes up nicely, as does getty once it gets there,
but no kernel output.
here's the whole boot string, hold on, it's pretty big, careful...!!!
vmlinuz-2.4.4 ro root=/dev/md1 console=tty console=ttyS0 raid=noautodetect md=1,/dev/sdb5,/dev/sdc2,/dev/sdd2 md=0,/dev/sda2,/dev/sdb2 md=2,/dev/sda5,/dev/sdb4,/dev/sdc1,/dev/sdd1,/dev/sde1,/dev/sdf1,/dev/sdb6
phew!

2 that PCI error message, it kept coming up the same (on the
serial console) whether i did a cold or warm reboot. then when i'd fsck'd
the filesystem it disappeared... a scsi controller thing? it's an
Adaptec 29160 Ultra160, been running fine for about 18 months and not
noticed any probs...

> > ps running SuSE 7.3
>
> Where'd you leak that from? Last Alpha version was 7.1 ;)

sorry it's a 7.1, my mistake/wishful thinking.

cheers,

/m