SCO Openserver 5 hangs at boot "H ksl init"
Kelly Beard
The only other thing I see on the screen that might tell something is:
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WARNING: smpw Cannot install intr vecno=10, type=4, IPL=5 Vector 10 is private
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%Sdsk - - cyls=4340 hds=64 secs=32 fts=stdb
H ksl init
That's it. This machine is quite old but not used that often. Its a Pentium
(I) 240Mhz, 32MB RAM. The boot device is a SCSI disk that is mirrored by
unknown software.
Tom Parsons
If you look in the bios, you will probably find that IRQ 10 has been
reserved for an ISA card. Remove the restriction.
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Tony Lawrence
>
> Kelly Beard enscribed:
> | I'm thinking there may be a hardware issue with this machine, but I'm not sure.
> | The only other thing I see on the screen that might tell something is:
> | ...
> | WARNING: smpw Cannot install intr vecno=10, type=4, IPL=5 Vector 10 is private
> | ...
> | %Sdsk - - cyls=4340 hds=64 secs=32 fts=stdb
> | H ksl init
> |
> | That's it. This machine is quite old but not used that often. Its a Pentium
> | (I) 240Mhz, 32MB RAM. The boot device is a SCSI disk that is mirrored by
> | unknown software.
>
> If you look in the bios, you will probably find that IRQ 10 has been
> reserved for an ISA card. Remove the restriction.
I think he's more likely to find that it has NOT been reserved for an
ISA card and that there is in fact an ISA card using that IRQ. Since
PCI doesn't know that, it assigns 10 to one of its devices, and then
when the ISA driver init gets called, it finds that it isn't allowed to
use 10.
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Tony Lawrence
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Mike Brown
Looks like and IRQ conflict. Did someone remove or change the PS2 mouse ?
Mike
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Kelly Beard
>Tom Parsons wrote:
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>
>I think he's more likely to find that it has NOT been reserved for an
>ISA card and that there is in fact an ISA card using that IRQ. Since
>PCI doesn't know that, it assigns 10 to one of its devices, and then
>when the ISA driver init gets called, it finds that it isn't allowed to
>use 10.
You are correct. I went in to the BIOS and reserved this IRQ and the machine
booted normally. It may need a CMOS battery though. I was getting all kinds of
weird stuff yesterday when trying to boot this thing. The size of the RAM was
misidentified on every boot it seems and I was getting weird stuff like keyboard
not connected even though it was. I kinda made sure the battery was seated well
and today it seems to be fine.
Fred Friedman
> I have had similiar problems....the solution is first to analyze your hardware....
1) Is your CMOS/BIOS set to NO for 'plug-n-play'? Unix doesn't like pnp.
2) Adaptec controllers need to be in the first PCI slot.
3) dual-channel NIC cards have to have their IRQ(s) frozen in the bios
4) Are you using a serial mouse or bus mouse?
These are some of the problem/solutions that I have to keep an eye on when I build
computer systems....
Fred Friedman
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