In message <20021111212418.GB560@drowsy.duskware.de>, you write: 

-> On Sun, Nov 10, 2002 at 10:00:34PM -0500, Rafal Boni wrote:
-> 
-> > Hmm, in my case, the prom seemed responsive enough, even if it seemed to
-> > be doing odd command completion
-> 
-> This sounds very familiar. If I get to the firmware prompt I can type many
-> commands with odd completition, but I can't type random text and some 
-> commands just don't work. Sometimes switching to the other CPU helps,
-> but sometimes that's one of the not working commands ;-)

I haven't tried to do much in this state (generally just reboot), but it does
sound similar to what you describe (esp. the "can't type random text"... at
4 am typing on my laptop propped up on my knees, my typing still was worse
than average, so a lot of my attempts at getting anything out of the PROM
probably looked at least somewhat like random text 8-).

I've now got conserver set up on one of my systems, so all serial output on
the U5 should now be logged; maybe this will at produce interesting output
next time this happens...

Thanks,
--rafal

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Rafal Boni                                                     rafal@attbi.com
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