On Wednesday 02 July 2003 05:28 pm, Craig Small wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 09:47:04PM -0700, Chris Hecker wrote: > > Writing to srm variables didn't work for me either (PC164), > > nor somebody else who mailed me. It went from hard-hanging > > the machine to just toasting the vga text mode but I could > > still ssh in. Yet another reason I went back to MILO. :) > > I have a PC164SX and I'm using SRM and aboot. Do you find > that it randomly wont reboot sometimes? I cannot off hand > remember the error message but it says to press some key (like > reset, but not the reset key) and only a power cycle fixes it. > > I've never been able to reliably reboot the alpha, leaving > aside kernel not working type problems.
Sounds a lot like the problems I first had with my PC164LX. Basically it couldn't halt without getting a machine check error, and usually it wouldn't successfully reboot either. That all apparently fixed itself when I flashed SRM from 5.1 up to 5.8. -- Kelledin "If a server crashes in a server farm and no one pings it, does it still cost four figures to fix?"
