Re: No "Boot:" Prompt
From: Gary L. Burnore (gburnore_at_databasix.com)
Date: 07/20/04
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Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 21:28:48 -0400
On 19 Jul 2004 21:19:43 -0400, Bob Stockler <bob@trebor.iglou.com>
wrote:
>SCO OSR 5.0.5 on a 12 years old 486/50 ESIA system with
>a BusLogic SCSI Adapter.
>
>Last Tuesday evening Louisville suffered strong thunder
>storms. Over 130,000 locations lost electrical service.
>I lost mine about 8:45 PM Tuesday, and didn't get it back
>until about 7:00 PM Friday.
>
>When I boot up my SCO OSR 5.0.5 system, it goes through
>the usual memory check and count, checks and reports the
>devices on the SCSI bus, then prints what the BIOS knows
>about the system, followed by these two lines:
>
> 50 MHz CPU Clock
> 256 KB CACHE MEMORY
>
>and then hangs.
>
>I tried Rescue Ranger, thinking maybe I'd lost the boot
>sector on my hard disk. It read RR #1 floppy OK, but
>when reading RR #2 floppy, after printing about two and
>a half lines of dots, I get this:
>
> FD error: drive=0, block=103, buf addr=6eae
> RECORD_NOT_FND: requested sector not found
>
>and then a lonely blinking cursor.
>
>OK, I was a dumb ass and didn't test the RR floppies as
>I was instructed to do.
>
>But then I had the brilliant idea of trying the RR #2 I
>had made on my newer OSR 5.0.6 system on a computer less
>that a year old.
>
>Good idea, but poor results. With it I get an error that
>is similar to the above, just different buf addr.
>
>But wait, I still have System Crash AIR-BAG, which I'd used
>not too long ago for some reason or other (I don't recall).
>
>With it everything went along fine until, when using the
>Filesystem Disk, it had printed more than a screen full of
>dots, and then it just hung, with a blinking cursor at the
>bottom of the screen.
>
>The failure of the system to present a Boot: prompt when
>started up normally, and the failure of AIR-BAG to put up
>its menu after it completes a successful loading hints to
>me a hardware failure somewhere.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Bob (Who hates Hardware.)
>
>PS - Rescue Ranger and Air-Bag are SuperTar products of
> cactus.com, and I certainly don't blame them for my
> problem. I cite my use of them only to provide more
> information for readers of this plea for help.
It really sounds like your boot prom is hosed. Remove the buslogic so
you don't do harm, and reset your motherboard back to factory
defaults. Then, try to boot from the floppy with something you know
works, like an old dos disk. If it works, plug your buslogic board
back in and try again.
--
gburnore@databasix dot com
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