[40387] in Hotline Meeting
Re: m38-370-9 panics on boot
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jacob Morzinski)
Tue Oct 28 21:45:34 1997
To: hotline@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 28 Oct 1997 21:45:31 EST
From: "Jacob Morzinski" <jmorzins@MIT.EDU>
Nathan Williams (nathanw) wrote:
> The Sun SPARCstation 4 m38-370-9 is panincing when it tries to
>boot. The panic message goes by too quickly to read. From the boot
>message it appears to have failed to boot for five days.
((See hotline transactions [40378], [40363].))
The normal sequence of thinge is that clock warning appears
quickly, and then there is a pause, and then the "panic" message
appears and the machine reboots so fast that there is just enough
time to read the word "panic" before the screen blacks out.
Some obscure lore prompted me to try booting the machine with
<Stop-A>
boot kadb -b
The machine tries to boot, then stops.
The last four lines on the screen are then:
WARNING: clock gained 5 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
panic: asynchronous memory fault: MFSR=81884820 MFAR=201060
stopped at E_Syslimit+0x1028 ta 0x7d
kadb[0]:
I turned it off, and put a sign on the keyboard asking others not
to turn it on.
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Jacob Morzinski jmorzins@mit.edu
