Hello,
It didn't take me long to go from happy to problems
The question is how much I have messed up the Altix. Curiosity killed the Altix?
In an attempt to get the last brick and cpus working, I opened it up and reseated all memory.
Damn design. They put two mainboards sort of back to back, with 4 cpus on each side. So I had
to open the top to deal with memory, flip it over and do the same on the underside. It weighs a lot.
The memory was the only thing that I dared to touch, everything else is screwed tight to the
mainboard. Anyway, that little operation didn't do any good, the top brick still showed 'Powered on'
while the other where 'Testing memory'.
There is a row of red leds you can se from the back of the brick. I guess the blinking is the cpus
working, like the O2000 cpus. On the top brick they are all solid red from startup while the
other bricks leds are blinking as if they are working.
So the next step, which usually gives some result on an O2000, was to 'pod', 'initalllogs' etc.
I didn't pay the warning text so much attention (as usuall
) and now the EFI doesn't come
up when I reboot. It stops right here
Does anyone know howto restore the EFI? Please tell or point me in the direction of some docs.
In Voralyan's Altix 350 PROM update viewtopic.php?t=16725651#p7342874 I found this.
But no description on how to fix it.
The only good that came out of this, is now I know what is wrong from the session log.
If it is anything like the O2000, the node need working memory in bank 1 to start booting, the other
banks are not so important, they are just disabled.
By swapping the bank 1 memory, most likely the brick will work and I only loose a some memory.
And then I want the EFI back ...
It didn't take me long to go from happy to problems
The question is how much I have messed up the Altix. Curiosity killed the Altix?
In an attempt to get the last brick and cpus working, I opened it up and reseated all memory.
Damn design. They put two mainboards sort of back to back, with 4 cpus on each side. So I had
to open the top to deal with memory, flip it over and do the same on the underside. It weighs a lot.
The memory was the only thing that I dared to touch, everything else is screwed tight to the
mainboard. Anyway, that little operation didn't do any good, the top brick still showed 'Powered on'
while the other where 'Testing memory'.
There is a row of red leds you can se from the back of the brick. I guess the blinking is the cpus
working, like the O2000 cpus. On the top brick they are all solid red from startup while the
other bricks leds are blinking as if they are working.
So the next step, which usually gives some result on an O2000, was to 'pod', 'initalllogs' etc.
I didn't pay the warning text so much attention (as usuall
) and now the EFI doesn't come
up when I reboot. It stops right here
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POD entered via MCA, using Cac mode
0 002: POD SysCt Cac>
Does anyone know howto restore the EFI? Please tell or point me in the direction of some docs.
In Voralyan's Altix 350 PROM update viewtopic.php?t=16725651#p7342874 I found this.
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Ok, flash was successfull. The next step is important: Go to POD mode and clear all logs...
Beware: All PROM variables and EFI settings are lost after this...
The only good that came out of this, is now I know what is wrong from the session log.
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Module 001c33#2 Bank 1 failed memory tests.. DONE
banks are not so important, they are just disabled.
By swapping the bank 1 memory, most likely the brick will work and I only loose a some memory.
And then I want the EFI back ...
...
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