On Feb 15, 2012, at 12:50 PM, Kevin Gordon wrote: > I'm fixing up about 5 XO-1s I bought from eBay, all with what appear to be > RTC issues. > > 4 all worked nicely, page fault error from the serial adapter console, > entered the select/decimal/set-time, they rebooted and re-flashed very well. > > Alas, number 5, when I crank up the power, all that appears on the serial > console is a '+' sign, no pretty Forth message, no Page Fault error, just > that lonely arithmetic symbol. > > Went back to a couple of the others and verified that serial adapter and > console still worked > > Is there a possiblity that this one beast might have a different baud rate or > parity? I didn't really want to try the o, let's say, 32768 different > combinations of values, if instead there is knowledge out there that this is > a recognized issue that indicates an SPI explosion or sumpin' :-)
That means that open firmware didn't get very far in the boot process. I recommend reprogramming the firmware, but that is hard to do when it is in this state... Taking a known good SPI Flash from another board would test whether this is the problem. Cheers, wad _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel
