My RaQ3 was working happily, but I decided to re-boot it yesterday...(it
wasn't a Friday!)
and it shuts down fine, but the it hangs and the LCD says "Strings not f" or
"Loading Kernel..." and hangs.
So I have connected a serial cable and when power cycled I get numerous
different stage problems - shown below.
I found the only way to fix this issue is to power-down and remove the CMOS
battery for 10 seconds, then it all starts perfectly! I have replaced the
CMOS battery (CR2032), with a new one, twice in the last 20 days!
Also I've reset the CMOS.
I plan of re-installing the OS shortly...but I would like to understand if
this issue will cause future problems?
Thanks,
Charles
--------------- Re-boot try
1 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cobalt Networks - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Firmware version 2.3.0
ROM Build info: Wed Oct 6 15:23:25 PDT 1999 freakshow.cobaltnet.com
System serial number: [VALID_BUT_HIDDEN]
Memory found: 128 MB
Initializing I2C bus: done
Scanning PCI bus: done
Initializing IDE: done
IDE 0 master: found
slave: not found
IDE 1 master: not found
slave: not found
Initializing SCSI: no SCSI found - failed
Initializing ethernet: failed
Initializing EEPROMs: done
EEPROM Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1MB
EEPROM Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting rom_fs: done
Initializing RTC: done
Initializing i18n - language "en": error parsing strings file /strings.en at
lin
e 304 - failed
Trying English: error parsing strings file /strings.en at line 361 -
failed -
no language loaded - trouble will ensue
String not found
Booting default method - String not found
First stage kernel: Decompressing \length erro- done
--------------- Re-boot try
2 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cobalt Networks - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Firmware version 2.3.0
ROM Build info: Wed Oct 6 15:23:25 PDT 1999 freakshow.cobaltnet.com
System serial number: [VALID_BUT_HIDDEN]
Memory found: 128 MB
Initializing I2C bus: done
Scanning PCI bus: done
Initializing IDE: done
IDE 0 master: found
slave: not found
IDE 1 master: not found
slave: not found
Initializing SCSI: no SCSI found - failed
Initializing ethernet: failed
Initializing EEPROMs: done
EEPROM Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1MB
EEPROM Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting rom_fs: done
Initializing RTC: done
Initializing i18n - language "en": done
Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Booting default method - From disk
First stage kernel: Decompressing \length erro- done
--------------- Re-boot try
3 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cobalt Networks - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Firmware version 2.3.0
ROM Build info: Wed Oct 6 15:23:25 PDT 1999 freakshow.cobaltnet.com
System serial number: [VALID_BUT_HIDDEN]
Memory found: 128 MB
Initializing I2C bus: done
Scanning PCI bus: done
Initializing IDE: done
IDE 0 master: found
slave: not found
IDE 1 master: not found
slave: not found
Initializing SCSI: no SCSI found - failed
Initializing ethernet: failed
Initializing EEPROMs: done
EEPROM Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1MB
EEPROM Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting rom_fs: done
Initializing RTC: done
Initializing i18n - language "en": done
Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Booting default method - From disk
First stage kernel: Decompressing - done
Linux version 2.2.12C3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Li
nux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 (ROM kernel) Wed Oct 6 15:16:06 PDT 1999
Detected 298813676 Hz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 596.38 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14424k/16384k available (1080k kernel code, 416k reserved, 400k
data, 64
k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 16 Mb
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D processor stepping 0c
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 erro
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Assigning I/O space 5800-583f to device 00:18
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, IGMP
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device tunl0 is deferr
GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device gre0 is deferred
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.2
Cobalt temperature sensor v1.2 enabled
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Keyboard timeout[2]
Keyboard timeout[2]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Driver v1.09
lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.01 by
lcd: Andrew Bose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Stonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
Unable to handle kernel paging request at virtual address 24a30e80
current->tss.cr3 = 00101000, %cr3 = 00101000
*pde = 00000000
Oops: 0002
CPU: 0
EIP: 0010:[<c01949a2>]
EFLAGS: 00010046
eax: c028c340 ebx: 24000000 ecx: 00000000 edx: 0000000e
esi: 0000000a edi: c028c3a0 ebp: c025d2e0 esp: c0003f30
ds: 0018 es: 0018 ss: 0018
Process swapper (pid: 1, process nr: 1, stackpage=c0003000)
Stack: c025d441 07ffffb4 c025da38 00000366 a1000001 c025d2e0 c018ec00
c028c340
00000282 00000000 c0194e8e c025d2e0 00000000 c0003f88 c0003fb0
07ffffb4
c019509f c025d2e0 00000f00 c0227fd8 c021cbdc 00000001 00000001
00000001
Call Trace: [<c018ec00>] [<c0194e8e>] [<c019509f>] [<c0106000>] [<c0106000>]
[<c0121260>] [<c0106093>] [<c010856b>]
Code: c1 04 bb 00 00 00 20 8b 7c 24 24 57 8d 8d 61 01 00 00 51 53
--------------- Re-boot try
4 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cobalt Networks - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Firmware version 2.3.0
ROM Build info: Wed Oct 6 15:23:25 PDT 1999 freakshow.cobaltnet.com
System serial number: [VALID_BUT_HIDDEN]
Memory found: 128 MB
Initializing I2C bus: done
Scanning PCI bus: done
Initializing IDE: done
IDE 0 master: found
slave: not found
IDE 1 master: not found
slave: not found
Initializing SCSI: no SCSI found - failed
Initializing ethernet: failed
Initializing EEPROMs: done
EEPROM Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1MB
EEPROM Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting rom_fs: done
Initializing RTC: done
Initializing i18n - language "en": done
Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Cobalt:Main Menu> bfr
First stage kernel: Decompressing \length erro- done
--------------- Re-boot try
5 ----------------------------------------------------------------------
Cobalt Networks - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Firmware version 2.3.0
ROM Build info: Wed Oct 6 15:23:25 PDT 1999 freakshow.cobaltnet.
System serial number: [VALID_BUT_HIDDEN]
Memory found: 128 MB
Initializing I2C bus: done
Scanning PCI bus: done
Initializing IDE: done
IDE 0 master: found
slave: not found
IDE 1 master: not found
slave: not found
Initializing SCSI: no SCSI found - failed
Initializing ethernet: failed
Initializing EEPROMs: done
EEPROM Bank 0: AMD AM29F080B 1MB
EEPROM Bank 1: not installed.
Mounting rom_fs: done
Initializing RTC: done
Initializing i18n - language "en": done
Press spacebar to enter ROM mode
Booting default method - From disk
First stage kernel: Decompressing - done
Linux version 2.2.12C3 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version egcs-2.91.66
19990314/Li
nux (egcs-1.1.2 release)) #1 (ROM kernel) Wed Oct 6 15:16:06 PDT 1999
Detected 298807896 Hz processor.
Calibrating delay loop... 596.38 BogoMIPS
Memory: 14424k/16384k available (1080k kernel code, 416k reserved, 400k
data, 64
k init)
VFS: Diskquotas version dquot_6.4.0 initialized
Enabling new style K6 write allocation for 16 Mb
CPU: AMD AMD-K6(tm) 3D proces
Checking 386/387 coupling... OK, FPU using exception 16 error reporting.
Checking 'hlt' instruction... OK.
POSIX conformance testing by UNIFIX
mtrr: v1.35a (19990819) Richard Gooch ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
PCI: Using configuration type 1
PCI: Probing PCI hardware
PCI: Assigning I/O space 5800-583f to device 00:18
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, IGMP
IPv4 over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device tunl0 is deferred
GRE over IPv4 tunneling driver
early initialization of device gre0 is deferred
NET4: AppleTalk 0.18 for Linux NET4.0
Initializing RT netlink socket
Starting kswapd v 1.2
Cobalt temperature sensor v1.2 enabled
Serial driver version 4.27 with no serial options enabled
ttyS00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A
ttyS01 at 0x02f8 (irq = 3) is a 16550A
Keyboard timeout[2]
Keyboard timeout[2]
pty: 256 Unix98 ptys configured
Real Time Clock Drive
lcd: Cobalt LCD Driver v3.01 by
lcd: Andrew Bose <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Timothy Stonis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
loop: registered device at major 7
Uniform Multi-Platform E-IDE driver Revision: 6.20
ALI15X3: IDE controller on PCI bus 00 dev 78
ALI15X3: 100% native mode on irq 14
ide0: BM-DMA at 0xf000-0xf007, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA
ide1: BM-DMA at 0xf008-0xf00f, BIOS settings: hdc:DMA, hdd:DMA
hda: ST310212A, ATA DISK drive
ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14
ALI15X3: Ultra DMA enabled
hda: ST310212A, 9768MB w/512kB Cache, CHS=19846/16/63, (U)DMA
md driver 0.36.6 MAX_MD_DEV=4, MAX_REAL=8
linear personality registered
raid0 personality registered
raid1 personality registered
scsi : 0 hosts.
scsi : detected total.
PPP: version 2.3.7 (demand dialling)
TCP compression code copyright 1989 Regents of the University of California
PPP line discipline registered.
eth0: Invalid EEPROM checksum 0x82d7, check settings before activating this
devi
ce!
eth0: Intel EtherExpress Pro 10/100 at 0x1000, 00:10:E0:01:F7:70, IRQ 11.
Board assembly 000000-000, Physical connectors present:
Primary interface chip None PHY #0.
General self-test: passed.
Serial sub-system self-test: passed.
Internal registers self-test: passed.
ROM checksum self-test: passed (0xdbd8681d).
Receiver lock-up workaround activated.
Partition check:
hda: hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4
VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Freeing unused kernel memory: 64k freed
BOOTLOADER: Mapping in physical locations
BOOTLOADER: load_addr=0xc1800000 ret_data=0xc1a01b70
BOOTLOADER: opening "/boot/vmlinux.gz"
BOOTLOADER: reading "/boot/vmlinux.gz"
BOOTLOADER: read 694637bytes
BOOTLOADER: mapping 16M-32M for ride home
BOOTLOADER: disabling interupts
BOOTLOADER: flushing cache
BOOTLOADER: Leap of faith!
Second stage kernel: Decompressing -length erro- done
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