David Medberry wrote: > On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 14:21 -0400, Brian Szymanski wrote: > >> I'm having sporatic failures to boot on an sgi750 (2x733MHz Merced) >> which I've recently obtained. Once the system is up, however, it's rock >> solid, so it doesn't seem to be a hardware problem. Also, the problem >> occurs whether booting from CD or booting from the hard drive. If I try >> to boot from the CD, the error looks like this: >> >> CD: >> Uncompressing Linux... done >> Loading file \initrd.gz... done >> [ flashing cursor mocks me until i reboot ] >> >> HD: >> Uncompressing Linux... done >> Loading file \EFI\debian\initrd.gz... done >> [ flashing cursor mocks me until i reboot ] >> >> > > This is typical if the console is NOT where you think it was at. > You should see what CONSOLE= parameter is being passed in your elilo > config. > > I'd guess that the working config has a different CONSOLE= than those > that don't work. You can also just run through different answers. (In > addition to the serial port being wrong, the baud could also be > wrong--try a variety 9600 and up.) >
Sorry, I wasn't clear. This is VGA output - I'm not using a serial console. The problem occurs about 1/2 the time, with the same boot media and no other changes. PS - I also should have said reset, not reboot, as I have to power the system off and on after this happens - keyboard input seems to go to /dev/null at this point. Thanks -- Brian Szymanski email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
