Re: DS10: "failed to load execlet"?

In article <07113000363306_202647DE@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, sms@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Steven M. Schweda) writes:
From: winston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Alan Winston - SSRL Central Computing)

So I have a DS10 that I bought from Island and left in a box for
months. (We foolishly bought it without a video card, and then I was
fussing with an unsupported old card for too long, and now I have a
nice ATI card that succeeds in driving a VGA display with the
console.) Any warranty is already over.

Is that a genuine Radeon 7500 or some other random/unsupported ATI
card? (Lots of stuff will do the VGA part well enough.)


Unsupported but Island swears it works.

Console software is 7.2-1 with a 2006 date.

My good system is an XP1000, so I stopped worrying about firmware
versions long ago.

The CD drive reports itself as CD-224E 9.9A and looks like the OEM
drive.

Teac, or was it as reticent/vague-about-details as you?

I can't really tell easily. The faceplate matches the battleship-gray box of
the DS10. The drive is in a cage (with two other drives) which I don't see how
to remove, and I can't see any details on the CD. I'm way more of a software
person than a hardware person.

When I attempt to boot from the CD (dqbo) it sees a boot block,
reports reading 1226 blocks from dqb0.0.1.13.0, goes through to
setting affinity, reports jumping to bootstrap code, and then
%SYSBOOT-E-LDFAIL, failed to load execlet, status = 00000054

alp $ sysmsg %x00000054
%SYSTEM-F-CTRLERR, fatal controller error

Interesting.

What's going on here? Do I have a CD drive problem? A CPU problem?
A duff copy of the OS? How do I tell?

I'd try a new/different CD-ROM drive. Everyone has a loose external
SCSI drive lying around, doesn't he? If I had a different CD, I might
try that, too.


I'll see if someone around here has a SCSI drive.

The more I think about it, the more I think that it's probably a
total loss. I'll pay the shipping if you want to shed the thing.


I think I detect irony.

Thanks!

-- Alan
.

Relevant Pages

  • Seeking advice on planned new build
    ... Sound Card: ... Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Silencer 610 or 750 ... the two optical drives to give them all better air circulation). ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: 3B2 Disks
    ... Pure MFM. ... SCSI came much later as an add on card. ... Biggest MFM disk was ~70 meg. ... I actually used my first MFM drives (a pair of Ampex 27 MB ...
    (comp.sys.3b1)
  • Seeking advice on planned new build -- v2.0
    ... Sound Card: ... Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 SLI or Silencer 470 ... the two drives listed are the better buy at the time of purchase. ... I've also dropped my plan for a separate CD writer, ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: Seeking advice on planned new build -- v2.0
    ... Sound Card: ... Power Supply: PC Power & Cooling Turbo-Cool 510 SLI or Silencer 470 ... the two drives listed are the better buy at the time of purchase. ... I've also dropped my plan for a separate CD writer, ...
    (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
  • Re: New PC - everything supported by Fedora Core 3 ?
    ... I ended up using a Mad Dog FX 5500 PCI based video card. ... With this combination the Nvidia drivers loaded and worked with very ... The biggest problem I had was with the on board ethernet controller. ... I am using only SATA type hard drives. ...
    (Fedora)