Subject: Re: problems with an ipx
To: nm <nmanisca@vt.edu>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/29/1999 23:43:28
On Apr 28, nm wrote
> im using 1.3.3 on an IPX.
> 
> i notice that once every day or so my IPX has returned to
> the firmware and is awaiting a b command to boot it... the logs
> do not turn up anything unusual.  the systems seems fine other
> than this.

Did you try to hit 'c' instead ? Does it resume normal operations ?
Check you keyboard and keyboard cable. I've seen dying cable produce this
(equivalent of an unplug-replug). If you have a serial console, I guess a
bad serial cable can cause the same effect.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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