RS/6000 580

From: Patrick Finnegan <pat_at_purdueriots.com>
Date: Sat Jul 6 08:21:29 2002

YAY! I've got it partially IPLing off of the drives that came out of my
55L. It seems to halt with a message of '552' - IPL Varyon falied. Does
anyone know enough IBM-speak to tell me what that means?

Aparently, the problem it was having earlier with powering off
automagically was caused by the power supply thinking a fan was broken -
once I fixed that problem, it magically started doing stuff again.

I'm about to try booting in service mode with a set of diagnostic disks
and see if I can figure anything else out.

One more thing -- I'm still getting just a black picture out of the video
card, like I was with the 5%L. Does anyone know if that's what it should
be doing, or if something there is amiss, too? I've got a 'real' rs/6000
keyboard and mouse hooked up to the system this time, and haven't tried
booting with a serial terminal yet.

Thanks for any help.

-- Pat
Received on Sat Jul 06 2002 - 08:21:29 BST